Guy Hit in Head with .50 Caliber Ricochet

in fact bullets do fall right out of the sky. If you shot a gun horizontally and dropped a bullet from the same height, it would take the same amount of time for both bullets to hit the ground. The vertical components acting on the bullets are the same.

It is that source of push that I neglected to consider when thinking that bullets could simply fall at 9.8 m/s/s.

I know it's a bad analogy =( you gotta think outside the box on this one. Here's the similairity I meant:

Bullets don't simply fall out of flight because they are given a source of "push"... a source allowing sustained or extended periods of being air-born They are propelled.

Planes, likewise, don't fall out of flight because they are given a source of "push" (whether it be the wings that allow it to glide or propellers).

lol, the reason why air planes don't fall out of the sky has nothing to do with bullets. The reason planes don't fall out of the sky is because of the lift created by the difference in the air pressure between the air on top of the wing and the bottom. The difference is created by the shape of the wing which forces air to travel a further distance on top, making it have less dense air (high pressure), and all objects move from low to high pressure.

ohh got ya

yes he was super lucky

Umm no.
It was the bullet.

stupid.

haha thats AWSOME

Dude, if you try to assassinate Chuck Norris you should get something more powerful then a .50, your lucky he didn't aim

yeah yeah this is true, but I wasn't talking about the spin being the only thing that propells the bullet, but rather and additional force. The spin keeps the bullet accurate by helping it stay straigh (more aerodynamic) and thus in the air longer. Propelled I guess was a bad choice of words.

But all this physics doesn't matter :P The point is this guy is lucky and it was a cool vid

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acutally the bullet is propelled by the force of the explosion inside the shell which creates energy and sends the bullet flying, the spin is for better accurecy.

No, Objects do fall at 9.8 meters a second (squared)

But when yo take into account the kinetic energy applied to the bullet to make it move forward, air resitance, lift, all that good stuff, the 9.8 is fuzzed over.

So say a .50 cal travels at about 2800 feet per second, which is equal to 853 meters per second. 3 cm every 100 meters is equal to 25.59 cm every 853 meters. So according to you, this is a quarter of a meter every second. Therefore, if you shoot at almost a kilometers distance away, the bullet will only fall a quarter meter. I think this is more realistic.

Yeah 9.8 seemed sorta high but I just remember hearing way back in physics class that everything falls at a rate of 9.8 meters a second squared.

But I forgot to take into consideration that a bullet is being propelled by its vertical spin (ie. sorta why a plane doesn't fall out of the sky). And also the angle of elevation, or arc, must be considered.

chuck norris trying to scare us !