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Incendiary simply means it's intended to burn or ignite fires. In the case of a cannonball, it would be designed to break up on impact and spread flammable material.
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What is the round object shot out of a cannon?
a cannon ball
What is a Cannon ball value?
I dug a cannonball out of the ground ...im wondering what it is worth ?
Why does a cannon and a cannon ball have different accelerations when it is fired?
The cannon (also called artillery or gun or field piece) has no acceleration. It's just a stationary tube; a gun barrel.The cannon ball (also called a shell or projectile) travels at a speed determined by it's propellent charge; interior of the gun tube (rifled or smoothbore); length of gun tube; and the caliber of the weapon (gun size).As a rule: Larger projectiles travel slower; rifled barrels shoot slower projectiles; shorter gun tube have shorter ranges; smaller powder charges (propellent) travel smaller distances.I'm sorry, but the cannon does accelerate in the opposite direction of the cannon ball. This is called recoil. Old cannons simply rolled backwards as a result of recoil and had to be manually pulled forward again and reaimed. Modern artillery pieces all use recoil absorbing mechanisms that permit the barrel to recoil without moving the carriage, then automatically reextend the barrel.To answer the original question, the cannon is heavier and the ball is lighter, therefor the ball accelerates faster than the cannon.
Will a cannon ball float in mercury?
That depends on what is it made of, however even lead cannon ball would float in mercury, let alone steel one. If you compare densities, you can see that mercury is more dense than lead in room temperature (13530 kg m-3 vs 11 540 kg m-3). One can imagine a cannon ball made of depleted uranium perhaps, which would sink in mercury, being more dense.
If a 100 pound cannon ball and a 1 ounce bullet were dropped from the same height which would hit the ground first?
With both projectiles round and made of the same heavy material (same densities), they'd get to the ground at the same time. Air resistance would be minimized this way. A ping pong ball cannot fall as fast as a cannon ball unless both are falling in a vacuum. Galileo put us straight on this phenomenon.
What is the name of cannon ammunition?
A cannon ball.
What is the round object shot out of a cannon?
a cannon ball
What is the size of a cannon ball?
the size of the cannon ball depends on the size of the cannon. civil war cannons had cannon balls about the size of a child's head, aprox 30cm across
What type of rifle has the word cannon in the name?
cannon ball
When a cannon is fired will the cannon and cannon ball will have the same amount of kinetic energy?
Yes, both have the same energy, but because cannon is heavier the cannon ball gets more momentum and thus greater velocity.
What would happen if someone built a cannon that weighed as the cannon ball?
The cannon would want to move backwards with the same speed as the ball wants to move forward.
When was the first cannon ball made?
The first cannon ball was made in the 3rd century BC in a place called Alexandra
A 3 kg cannon ball is fired from a cannon with a velocity of 90 ms what is the kinetic energy of the cannon ball?
1.2 x 10^4 J That is in Significant Figures
How do you do cannon ball in Mario 64?
not
How is a cannon ball being shot?
the explosion of gunpowder behind it propells it out of the cannon.
What are the release dates for Wabash Cannon Ball - 1946?
Wabash Cannon Ball - 1946 was released on: USA: 23 December 1946
What are the release dates for The Tardy Cannon Ball - 1914?
The Tardy Cannon Ball - 1914 was released on: USA: 10 October 1914
