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Bullet behavior during an underwater test

This experiment explores how projectiles behave underwater, demonstrating the effects of water resistance and physics in a ...
PBS

Teaching Physics with Angry Birds: Projectile Motion

I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...
Physics World

Shape-shifting soft projectiles travel faster

Liquid droplets or soft solid objects can be catapulted with more than twice the energy of rigid projectiles, according to physicists in France. They say that this “super propulsion” relies on ...
Jalopnik

Watch The Navy's Hyper Velocity Projectile Rip Through These Plates

The Office of Naval Research is getting ready to deploy their electromagnetic Railgun for testing for the first time next year. But what is a gun without ammo? The Hyper Velocity Projectile is being ...
USNI

Navy Quietly Fires 20 Hyper Velocity Projectiles Through Destroyer’s Deckgun

Guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG-105) transits the Pacific Ocean while underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. US Navy Photo Last summer USS Dewey (DDG-105) fired 20 hyper velocity ...