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If a bullet was fired straight up in a vacuum what speed would it be traveling when it reached the ground?
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∙ 15y ago
Exactly the same speed as when it left the barrel (ignoring the distance from the gun to the ground). Why should we do that?
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Will a bullet travel the same distance straight up that it would horizontally?
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.
A rifle is shot straight up and the bullet leaves the barrel at a speed of 245 miles per second How long will it take the bullet to hit the ground?
50 seconds
If you are traveling at the speed of a bullet and then fired a bullet in the opposite direction what happens?
1). Your speed in the forward direction should increase somewhat, since the recoil of the shot adds to your momentum. 2). The bullet you fire in the reverse direction leaves the muzzle with full muzzle velocity and momentum in the reverse direction ... in your frame of reference. Viewed by an observer in the stationary frame of reference ... the one in which you are moving at the speed of a bullet ... the one you fire just dribbles out of the muzzle and falls straight to the ground.
If someone fires a 110 grain 38 caliber bullet straight up at 300 meters per s how high will the bullet rise how fast will it be going when it hits the ground?
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.
Can a bullet fired straight up in the air kill someone on the ground when it comes back down?
Yes, Google CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE the first article. (WIKI)
How far can any bullet ricochet off the ground?
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.
How deep can a bullet go into the ground?
To many variables. Depends on caliber of bullet, type of dirt, type of ammo, distance from gun to ground,etc...
Is it possible to shoot a bullet into space from the ground on earth?
Yes, if the bullet is shot with escape velocity.
How long till a bullet loses momentum?
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).
Which bullet strikes the ground first the one that is fires from a rifle or the one that from the rest?
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.
When a bullet leaves a gun the bullet has what type of energy?
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.
A rifle is shot straight up and the bullet leaves the barrel at a speed of 245 ms How long will it take the bullet to hit the ground?
We're going to ignore air resistance.Time the bullet spends on the way up = 245/9.8 secondsTime it spends on the way down to the same elevation as the muzzle = another 245/9.8 secondsTotal time to return to the elevation of the muzzle = (2 x 245 / 9.8) = 50 seconds.From there, we don't know how high the muzzle of the gun is above the ground, sowe can't calculate the duration of the extra little bit until the bullet hits the ground.
