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Re: Calculating Drag

• Posted by David Roach <roachd_76 at YAHOO.COM> Feb 08, 2000
• 414 views

Correct. But the majority of bullets do. The speed of sound is 1117 f/s
roughly.
So even a lot of pistols get there.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: Calculating Drag


> ----- 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


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