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Engineers patent limited-range projectile to reduce collateral damage

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- Three employees of the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, or ARDEC, were awarded with a U.S. patent for their proof of concept work on a ...
Wired

Modeling the Maximum Range of a Projectile

I’ve started recreating many of my numerical model tutorials for introductory physics. In the beginning, I had students use spreadsheets to create models. Of course, spreadsheets aren’t very good for ...
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 ...
Wired

How to 'Scale Down' Projectile Motion

Maybe you have noticed how much material there was (for me at least) in last week's MythBusters. One of the myths they looked at was the bus jumping over a gap in the road from the movie Speed. I am ...
The New York Times

DYNAMITE AS A PROJECTILE.; EXPERIMENTS WITH THE NEW SHELLS TO BE MADE TO-DAY.

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