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OK, So, in the examples we've got, is there a way to determine or guesstimate how quickly the projectile is going to come to a stop?

Well, yes, a bullet puts a hole in you. That I knew. But, mathematically speaking, why? Wound theory is controversial, since the science is still poorly understood, despite all of the research put into it by the world's militaries. But the prevailing theory is that most of the injury done...

Hi, everyone. Please help us work through a hypothetical situation that we came up with at work. We're chemists, not physicists, and none of us have had to do physics equations since undergrad. So, we're kind of hopeless without help. We were thinking about the following scenario. In the...