Re: [Phys-l] Killed by a Falling Bullet? - Myth busters.

["Kilmer, Skip" <kilmers@greenhill.org>]

Wouldn't that depend on whether horizontal referred to the line of the barrel or the line across the sights? If I remember from my shooting days, they aren't parallel...something about a sightin-in range.
sk

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Willey
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 7:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Killed by a Falling Bullet? - Myth busters.


R. McDermott wrote:
> For the purposes of completeness, it should be pointed out that bullets are 
> not strictly free-falling objects.  A high-velocity rifle bullet fired 
> horizontally, for example, will typically rise during the first half of its 
> flight...............
>   
No, that's wrong. A bullet fired horizontally does not rise at first, it 
only does that if fired at an angle above the horizontal,
cheers,
David

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