Re:Military technology: Magic bullets
by gvb on Sunday January 15, 2012 @07:20PM
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No. A falling object is at "0G", it is "weightless" (in a "drop seat" type carnival ride, when the ride triggers, you have no force on your butt). A bullet is a falling object after it leaves the gun. You cannot measure earth's gravitational attraction from the bullet's frame of reference because it is 0. Therefore, you cannot use earth's gravitational attraction to measure the bullet's spin rate because the value is zero, and zero has no direction information.
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Re:Military technology: Magic bullets
by robotresearcher on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @07:58PM
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Sure, once the bullet is moving ballistically you can't measure G. My argument was with the statement that accelerometers measure changes in acceleration. They don't.