Re: Buoyant Bullets

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 17:00 10/30/97 -0800, you wrote:
> At 5:12 PM -0800 10/30/97, brian whatcott wrote:
>
> > Ludwik seems readily amazed today - so let me do my little to help.
> > How about a retarding force formula *greater* than the bullet's weight.
> >
> > Gee whizz! That means that a bullet fired straight down at mach 2
> > would DECELERATE!
>
> I'd be willing to bet it would. Is that a surprising result? I'd be
> shocked to find any real retarding force at one atmosphere pressure
> that would *not* decelerate a bullet fired downward at mach 2.
>
> Leigh
Then I would suggest you are not a lost cause;
where there's a component of downward velocity
for a speeding object in air, you see that there is an upwardly
directed component of drag - let's call it lift (?)

:-)
Brian
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK