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Which object will be slowed the most by air resistance softball ping pong ball bowling ball or a bullet?
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The more carefully a scientist tries to answer this question, the more trouble he'd have with it. The problem is the part where it says "... slowed the most ..."
That's a concept that seems intuitively very easy to understand, but it's scientifically about as foggy as you can get. How do you measure how much a moving object has been slowed? Are we supposed to look for the greatest instantaneous negative acceleration? The greatest numeric reduction in speed? The greatest fractional reduction in speed during the total flight? The greatest fractional reduction in momentum or in kinetic energy?
Now that we've pointed out the difficulty, we're going to sweep the whole matter under the rug, and simply say to the questioner: We know what you mean.
Of the items on that list, the ping pong ball will be slowed the most by air resistance.
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What is bullet trajectory?
The trajectory of a bullet or any object is the Physics word for describing its path.Provided air resistance is ignored, the trajectory of a bullet will resemble a projectile motion path.
A tennis ball a bowling ball and a feather are dropped from the Empire State Building in New York City at the same time With respect to what you have learned about air resistance which object reac?
The bowling ball, because it's the heaviest and thus not as affected by air resistance
Will a smaller object that weighs more fall faster then an object that weighs less?
No. Without any variables like air resistance, two objects of different weights (or mass) will wall at the same speed. The classic example is the bowling ball and a feather. In a vacuum, both fall at the same speed. In air, the feather encounters more air resistance than the bowling ball and therefore falls slower.
What is the resistance of an object to changes in its motion?
Inertia is the resistance of a object to change in its motion
What is the resistance of an object to changes its motion?
Inertia is the resistance of a object to change in its motion
Cause an objects velocity to change?
Is that a question? An object remains in motion until/unless acted on by another force. A bullet will slow and drop due to air resistance and gravity.
Why does a bullet ricochet sometimes when you shoot on a metal object with a gun and not always?
Lots of factors need to be taken into account: * What angle does the bullet strike the object? * What is the mass of the object? If small it will move and absorb the energy. * What is the bullet made of? Does the deformation absorb the energy? * Is the object firmly fixed or movable? * How fast is the bullet moving?
Will a bullet go up out of a level barrel?
No. Assuming the barrel is level (defined as perpendicular to the pull of gravity) then the bullet will leave the barrel horizontally and immediately begin to fall, like any other object subject to gravity. There are aerodynamic forces from air resistance, but these do not impart lift to the bullet. Often the gun recoils (per Newton's laws) in such a way as to raise the barrel after the bullet has fired.
When an object falls through the air encounters air resistance its overall speed will be than if it had not encountered air resistance?
The resistance do obstruct the object. The object always travel slower with air resistance. Air resistance is higher with velocity and the object falling through air would have a limited velocity that it can't go through.
Is a gun bullet a magnetic object?
Most are not.
Does friction slow down a falling object?
Friction in the form of air resistance will slow down a falling object. This is whyif you drop a feather and a bowling ball at the same time from the same height,the bowling ball will beat the feather, but if the same experiment is performed ina vacuum, which ideally contains no air, they will reach the ground at the sametime. In a vacuum, all objects fall at the same velocity, but when air resistanceis applied, objects fall at different speeds. The larger and lighter an object is,the greater its coefficient of drag, and of course the greater the coefficient ofdrag, the greater the drag force reacting against the object to make it fall moreslowly.==========================Answer #2: (a refinement)Air resistance doesn't "slow" a falling object. Once the object hasbuilt up to some particular speed of fall, air resistance prevents itfrom falling any faster.
What is the resistance that occurs when when an object rolls?
Gravity continually pulls an object down, creating friction as an object moves along a surface, and air itself creates resistance, known as air resistance.
