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<blockquote data-quote="cjjtulsa" data-source="post: 3277251" data-attributes="member: 6146"><p>OK - I never had physics in high school, so I have a question for those that did: you see these stories - the latest happened in Sapulpa - where a falling bullet penetrates a house roof, etc. How is this possible? Never made sense to me, as would not any mass only fall (gravity) as fast as it's own mass would allow? Would a 200gr projectile for example be able to fall fast enough according to it's mass to achieve "300 to 700 fps" as reported by the Sapulpa Police? Would obviously make sense that a .45 cal projectile would fall faster than a .22 cal projectile, but I never quite understood how that much velocity could be achieved due to a bullet only having x amount of mass?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cjjtulsa, post: 3277251, member: 6146"] OK - I never had physics in high school, so I have a question for those that did: you see these stories - the latest happened in Sapulpa - where a falling bullet penetrates a house roof, etc. How is this possible? Never made sense to me, as would not any mass only fall (gravity) as fast as it's own mass would allow? Would a 200gr projectile for example be able to fall fast enough according to it's mass to achieve "300 to 700 fps" as reported by the Sapulpa Police? Would obviously make sense that a .45 cal projectile would fall faster than a .22 cal projectile, but I never quite understood how that much velocity could be achieved due to a bullet only having x amount of mass? [/QUOTE]
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