A friend claims that bullets fired by some high-powered rifles travel for many meters in a straight-line path before they

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A friend claims that bullets fired by some high-powered rifles travel for many meters in a straight-line path before they start to fall. Another friend disputes this claim and states that all bullets from any rifle drop beneath a straight-line path a vertical distance given by 1/2gt2 and that the curved path is apparent for low velocities and less apparent for high velocities. Now it's your turn: Will all fired bullets drop the same vertical distance in equal times? Explain.

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Conceptual Physics

ISBN: 978-0321568090

11th edition

Authors: Paul G. Hewitt

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Question Posted: March 25, 2016 05:38:59