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Anyone good with statistics?? I've conducted an experiment looking at phonetic symbolism in Japanese words. Thirty participants listened to 40 Japanese words and had to choose out of a choice of two possible English translations which one they thought was the correct answer. I'm trying to...

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Anyone good with statistics?? I've conducted an experiment looking at phonetic symbolism in Japanese words. Thirty participants listened to 40 Japanese words and had to choose out of a choice of two possible English translations which one they thought was the correct answer. I'm trying to...

OK, so on the shell, the headwind would be 970 fps (speed of projectile fired backwards, but -30fps because that's the speed of the ship sailing forwards). So would that be 970 fps pushing forwards (as in, the direction of the ship), against 970 fps pushing backwards (the shell itself)...

Also, I forgot to mention the youtube video. In the video, the baseball pretty much stays at the point where it was fired (relative to the ground)- even though it has a tailwind of 100KPH?

So let me get this straight: A ship moving forwards at x fps fires a shell backwards at y fps. x < y The total velocity of the shell equals y - x. But how can headwind (i.e. air resistance opposing forward motion- correct?) affect a shell that's traveling in the opposite direction...

Thanks for the replies. I copied the first reply but they're still not budging. I even posted a youtube video showing a baseball being shot backwards from a speeding vehicle.

Thank you. I've been trying to tell them that all along. I wonder if Newton ever got called a "f*****g idiot"??

Here's the problem: 2 Battleships are traveling at the same speed and at the same direction. They both have the same range, i.e. they can both only fire a maximum distance which is the same for both of them. BB1 is in front of BB2, who is pursuing BB1. They are out of range. My...