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  2. Ballistic pendulum - Wikipedia

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    A green ballistic pendulum Animation of a ballistic pendulum. A ballistic pendulum is a device for measuring a bullet's momentum, from which it is possible to calculate the velocity and kinetic energy. Ballistic pendulums have been largely rendered obsolete by modern chronographs, which allow direct measurement of the projectile velocity.

  3. Inelastic collision - Wikipedia

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    Averaged across an entire sample, molecular collisions are elastic. [1] Although inelastic collisions do not conserve kinetic energy, they do obey conservation of momentum. [2] Simple ballistic pendulum problems obey the conservation of kinetic energy only when the block swings to its largest angle.

  4. Projectile motion - Wikipedia

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    Ballistics (from Ancient Greek βάλλειν bállein 'to throw') is the science of dynamics that deals with the flight, behavior and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, unguided bombs, rockets, or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.

  5. Gun chronograph - Wikipedia

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    A ballistic chronograph or gun chronograph is a measuring instrument used to measure the velocity of a projectile in flight, typically fired from a gun or other firearm. The instrument is often useful for tasks such as gauging the utility of a firearm or safety of non-lethal projectiles fired from items such as a paintball gun or BB gun .

  6. Ballistics - Wikipedia

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    Astrodynamics is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft. The motion of these objects is usually calculated from Newton's laws of motion and Newton's law of universal gravitation. It is a core discipline within space mission design and control.

  7. Gun laying - Wikipedia

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    Robins used the ballistic pendulum to measure projectile velocity in two ways. The first was to attach the gun to the pendulum, and measure the recoil. Since the momentum of the gun is equal to the momentum of the ejecta, and since the projectile was (in those experiments) the large majority of the mass of the ejecta, the velocity of the bullet ...

  8. Ballistic coefficient - Wikipedia

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    The ballistic coefficient of an atmospheric reentry vehicle has a significant effect on its behavior. A very high ballistic coefficient vehicle would lose velocity very slowly and would impact the Earth's surface at higher speeds. In contrast, a low ballistic coefficient vehicle would reach subsonic speeds before reaching the ground. [75]

  9. Mathieu function - Wikipedia

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    A classic example along these lines is the inverted pendulum. [42] Other examples are vibrations of a string with periodically varying tension [41] stability of railroad rails as trains drive over them; seasonally forced population dynamics; the phenomenon of parametric resonance in forced oscillators; motion of ions in a quadrupole ion trap [43]