Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Does this count as irony? Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:58:38 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 16 Sender: crlipton@gol.com Message-ID: References: <86c1g1d8nhrhqc18sg2phhdqgdg6mhi8fk@4ax.com> <1124121627.347317.199850@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1124125095.296052.93400@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1124147664.781177.276080@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d8.j3airh1.vectant.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1124229473 30937 203.140.44.8 (16 Aug 2005 21:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:57:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0533-1, 16-08-2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:28840 Simon wrote: > The muzzle velocity isn't important, just the velocity of the bullet on it's > way back down. If I remember Mr. Science, correctly, the time / speed / distance thingy plots out as a bell curve where the apex is zero speed, zero acceleration. If you draw a line parallel to the base through both legs of the curve, the speed is the same and the acceleration is exactly the opposite -- e.g. traveling at the same speed, but it is decelerating at the same rate on the way up that it is accelerating on the way down. Then again, I have two liberal arts degrees and a non-science advanced degree, too ... no one needs to go "engineer" or "physicist" on us ... CL