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Air Gun Sighted at a Falling Target Demonstration
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[QUOTE="BvU, post: 6592519, member: 499340"] Hi, [CENTER]:welcome:[/CENTER] Good question ! Without air resistance the bullet trajectory is a parabola (the black line in the picture [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_motion#Trajectory_of_a_projectile_with_air_resistance']here [/URL]) . That is what your exercises will want for your near future. With air resistance the bullet slows down considerably and follows a (much) more complicated trajectory. The target will also experience air resistance, but most likely not in the exact same way as the bullet (feather target? brick target?). It would be somewhat coincidental if both drop equally far over the distance of the shot. ##\ ## [/QUOTE]
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