Re: Calculating Drag
- Posted by Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET> Feb 08, 2000
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----- Original Message ----- From: David Roach <roachd_76 at YAHOO.COM> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 6:48 AM Subject: Re: Calculating Drag > I am dealing with the speed > of bullets. So we are definetly talking about over the speed of sound. Not all bullets travel at supersonic speeds, this is why a silencer is much more effective on a pistol than a rifle, the pistol doesn't keep the expanding gasses behind the bullet long enough to push it fast enough, basic physics. Kat