Fire a Bullet Straight Up: How High Does It Go?
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Started by metmike - April 18, 2019, 8:44 p.m.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/fire--bullet-straight-up-how-high-does-it-go.htm


"As he noted in his 1947 volume "Hatcher's Notebook," he calculated that a standard .30 caliber bullet fired from a rifle pointed straight up would rise to an altitude of 9,000 feet (2,743.2 meters) in 18 seconds, and then would return to Earth in another 31 seconds, and during the last few thousand feet would attain a "nearly constant" speed of 300 feet (91.4 meters) per second."

     


  


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