What Other Physics Concepts Can Enhance Your Understanding of Paintball?

[Cephalid-Hunter]

For a project I have for school, I have to explain the physics involved in the game of paintball. i just need a few more ideas for which areas of physics i should cover.

I already got these area's to write about

- velocity
- gravity
- momentum
- Newton's laws
- colission
- projectile motion
- ideal gas law

more ideas would be appreciated

 

[dextercioby]

For a project I have for school, I have to explain the physics involved in the game of paintball. i just need a few more ideas for which areas of physics i should cover.

I already got these area's to write about

- velocity
- gravity
- momentum
- Newton's laws
- colission
- projectile motion
- ideal gas law

more ideas would be appreciated

If my idea of "paintball" is the correct one,u shouldn't use "ideal gas law"...In "projectile motion" did u include air friction??
I think "energy" is a very important concept,doncha think so...??

Daniel.

 

[Cephalid-Hunter]

Yeah, forgot about energy

I used the ideal gas law because it says when you decrease temperature, it decreases pressure, which explains why paintball guns don't fire well in the cold.

 

[dextercioby]

Yes,u mean the gas compressed in the gun itself.That makes sense.I was thinking about the air the ball 'flies' through and wondered :"What about the Mandeleev-Clapeyron law...?"

Daniel.