Which gun.... of course it could be a toy gun which can barely even fire, in which case it will be like half a metre, or a .50 BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan bolt-action rifle with the longest kill of 2,430 metres (7,972 ft). All depends on power..
(I think he already quanitified the direction when he said 'straight'.... its called horizontal...
If you were to drop a bullet at the same moment the rifle bullet is fired, both ought to strike the ground simultaneously. The reason is because the downward force of gravity acts the same on each, whereas a bullet fired towards the ground would enjoy an initial velocity boost, and one fired above the horizontal would begin with a negative velocity.
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If mechanical energy is conserved (like, if you did this on the Moon, where there is practically no air), when the bullet gets back to the ground it must have the same speed with which it started out. In practice, it will be less, due to air resistance.
Yes, Google CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE the first article. (WIKI)
it all depends on the speed that the bullet is shot at. other contributing factors include the angle of the shot and the distance from the ground that the bullet is shot at. sadly, the x-factor of this question is that the ground determines how far it will ricochet. if the ground is water, it will not ricochet.
It starts to lose momentum the second it comes out of the barrel. It depends on where you shot it when the momentum is totally depleted (if you shoot straight up or parallel to the ground).
No. The horizontal distance depends on how close the the ground the gun is. From the firing position, a bullet dropped to the ground will strike the ground in the same time as a bullet shot horizontally forward.
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Exactly the same speed as when it left the barrel (ignoring the distance from the gun to the ground). Why should we do that?
If mechanical energy is conserved (like, if you did this on the Moon, where there is practically no air), when the bullet gets back to the ground it must have the same speed with which it started out. In practice, it will be less, due to air resistance.
Yes, Google CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE the first article. (WIKI)
In theory, if a bullet dropped vertically at the same instant that a bullet is fired horizontally from a gun at the same height, they should both hit the ground at the same time.This example is used to emphasize that that horizontal motion and vertical motion may be analysed separately since they occur independently of each other.This is one of those things that works better in theory than in practice.There is a caveat that is important if you consider doing this in the real world. The process is not happening in a vacuum. The aerodynamics of the bullet fired at high speed is tremendously important. In early gun design, this was not understood and bullets fired from guns were very inaccurate and went up or down or right or left in unpredictable ways. Modern guns stabilize the trajectory by putting a spin on the bullet. The result makes the bullet act like a gyroscope and then to remain pointed forward when it encounters small anomalies in the air and wind. So, the moving bullet is subjected to vertical forces and can not be expected to drop at the same rate as a bullet with no horizontal motion.The principle of independent horizontal and vertical motion works better when illustrated by throwing and dropping heavy rocks. The principle is entirely correct, but there are more vertical forces involved than gravity with the bullets.
it all depends on the speed that the bullet is shot at. other contributing factors include the angle of the shot and the distance from the ground that the bullet is shot at. sadly, the x-factor of this question is that the ground determines how far it will ricochet. if the ground is water, it will not ricochet.
To many variables. Depends on caliber of bullet, type of dirt, type of ammo, distance from gun to ground,etc...
Yes, if the bullet is shot with escape velocity.
It starts to lose momentum the second it comes out of the barrel. It depends on where you shot it when the momentum is totally depleted (if you shoot straight up or parallel to the ground).
A bullet fired parallel to the gound, over flat ground, and a bullet dropped at the same time from same height will hit the ground at a time so close to each other as to be the same.
The bullet has a great deal of kinetic energy, because of its high speed. It also has a little bit of potential energy relative to the ground, because of its height above the ground.