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Shooting a gun, dropping a bullet at the same time from the same height that the bullet is shot... which lands first? or do they land at the same time???
Edit for anyone new.... i mean shooting the bullet straight ahead on a horizontal plane, no height involved, and definitely not shooting it at the ground lol
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05-29-2009, 11:34 PM #1
If you shoot a gun and drop a bullet from the same height, which will land first??
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05-29-2009, 11:35 PM #2
from a certain height they will land at the same time. Will travel at the same speed eventually.
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EDIT: Assumed you meant the gun was pointed towards the ground. My bad. If gun is shot horizontally, theoretically, gravity will still act on both the shot bullet and the dropped bullet in the same way, so they should hit the ground at the same time. BUT, you have to take into account that the shot bullet is travelling very fast through the air and that may keep it up a bit longer or make it hit earlier depending on how the wind is.
If gun shot at ground:
Man how stoned are you? Of course the one that is shot will land first regardless of height.
If shot from point blank, it will hit the ground before a bullet dropped from a few inches(equivalent of where the bullet sits in the chamber)
Or if shot from 10000ft, the shot bullet will initally travel much faster than the dropped bullet. If shot from high enough, the shot bullet will slow down to its max falling speed and match the dropped bullet, but the shot bullet will have travelled much farther and still hit the ground first.
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If the bullet is shot straight towards the ground then the fired one will obviously. They both have same mass, same shape so air fricition is pretty much negligible. The fired bullet starts off at a much higher velocity and acceleration adds to that, whereas the dropped one starts slower.
edit: however as said, if you do shoot the gun horizontally they will both fall at the exact same time as the horizontal and vertical velocities are completely independant of each other, and we all know gravity acts in the vertical direction
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This is the same question as if you drop a semi and a feather from 200 ft which would land first?
Neither, both would land at the same time in accordance to their weight/volume... so on and so forth.
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05-29-2009, 11:41 PM #17
the bullet shot from the gun will accelerate PAST terminal velocity and then EVENTUALLY slow down, but it will still hit the ground first becuase it started at a speed MUCH faster than gravity can ever do on it own. The other bullet that is dropped will jus fall as fast as gravity can allow. The "free fall" bullet will NEVER catch up to the "shot" bullet.
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wait now, what the ****.
if you're standing on top of a ladder and drop a bullet, and fire a bullet at the same time, the velocity of the fired bullet is going to make contact with the ground first, it's gotta*80 pushups before going anywhere in public crew*
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No matter what, the shot bullet will land first. Even if you shoot/drop from 3 miles above earth.
Yes, eventually the shot bullet will slow to terminal volocity and travel at the same speed as the dropped bullet, but the shot bullet will have traveled much faster towards the ground until it reaches terminal volocity. by the time they are traveling at the same speed the bullets will have great distance between them.
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This. Weird to wrap your brain around, but it's true.
Actually, the feather and semi need to be in a vacuum to fall at the same speed, since only then would wind resistance be factored out.
lol, all these differing answers (not counting the one above me) remind me of the time there were actually people on the misc. saying that a pound of gold weighs more than a pound of feathers!
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bullet shot at a short distance will obviously reach the ground faster than a dropped bullet
but a bullet shot from a much farther distance (idk let's say from the sky) will drop the same as a dropped bullet from same position due to eventual reduction of speed
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I'm missing something here obviously...
You shoot a bullet out of lets say out of a .50 cal.. which travels 2800 feet per second.
You also release a .50 cal bullet as the same time and height w/the same angles.
How the **** are they going to land at the same time? By the time they reach their max speed, in this case end speed for the .50 cal and the max speed of the released bullet they will be at different distances since the .50 produced a inital velocity where as the inital velocity of the released bullet is 0.
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