Projectile

The title of Victor Hernandez Cruz's poem "Problem with Hurricanes" suggests more serious content, but when looking at this poem we see the exact opposite. When people think of a hurricane they think of the torrents of rain, the rushing wind, and the destruction that follows. However, Cruz does not focus on these parts of the hurricane, but decides to take a different path by bringing a sort of dark humor into the idea of a hurricane. Through word choice, tone, and figurative language, Cruz…

research: When an object is in the air and has no forces acting on it other than gravity it becomes a projectile. (Henderson, 1996) Gravity causes the projectile to accelerate toward the ground in a uniform arc like a rainbow does. this shape is known by scientists and mathematicians as a parabola, and objects that fly in the shape of a parabola are said to be in parabolic motion. A projectiles motion can be broken up into two separate pieces, horizontal and vertical motion. These two motions…

There is a tribe of people in the jungle that get raided by another tribe. One of the main characters hid his wife and child in a deep hole where the enemy tribe couldn’t find them and capture them. The main character Jaguar Paw had to watch his father die, and his father told him to not be afraid. The prisoners traveled to a mayan slave camp and some were sold as slaves. The men were going to be sacrifices for the mayan gods in hope that they would not have a disease in the city. Right when…

not that stupid. Fire,” he said, lighting a miniature straw bale and passing it to me like a hot potato. I took it, quickly pulled it back on the slingshot, and fired it at the target. Partly amazed that I hadn’t burnt myself, I watched the fiery projectile streak across the field before smacking into the target and thankfully falling into the catching tray. Viren let out a whoop and pumped a fist into the air. “See, it worked! Nothing disastrous happened.” “Yet. Nothing disastrous happened yet.…

In this, the rocket acts as a projectile being launched from the track by the produced magnetic force. Compared to standard methods, this alternative is beneficial as it is generally launched from higher altitudes (Figure 3). From Italian scientist, Galileo's study of projectile motion, it is known that increasing the launch height will reduce the required launch velocity (The Open University, 1995). Kinetic…

The Smithsonian writer Guy Gugliotta in his article ‘When did humans come to America?’ explains that the peopling of the Americas, happened sometime in the past 25,000 years where due to a wave of big game hunters crossed into the New World from Siberia at the end of the last ice age, when the Bering Strait was a land bridge that had emerged after glaciers and continental ice sheets froze enough of the world’s water to lower sea level as much as 400 feet below what it is today. Ted Goebel from…

An impact basin or impact crater is defined as the circular depression in the surface of a solid body in the solar system such as moon or some other planet. A lunar impact basin is a depression / cavity caused by a meteor or comet hitting the Moon with a greater speed. Impact basins typically have raised rims and floors that are lower in elevation than the surrounding surface. There are over 40 impact basins on the Moon. These basins were created by extremely powerful impacts, which usually…

Michael Kalashnikov’s challenge was to utilize skills from the engineering field to build a firearm that revolved around its bullet, and would be simple for the user to manipulate. The AK47 fires a 7.62x39 projectile, which is known to be an intermediate cartridge. This is created in such a way to have peak efficiency on human targets and not excessively strong, such as most military rounds used at the time. Such cartridges are made by making a bullet casing short and fat and making the rounds…

Today, some white guys came into our land violently, they treated us in a very disrespectful manner. We had never seen them or the pieces of metal they carried or what the wood boxes they came in. They had these sticks that shot out projectiles that were able to kill someone in a blink of an eye. Our bow and arrows were nothing compared to their weapons. They shot my friend for not letting them walk into the tribe’s village. We assured them that we did not have anything that they were looking…

Airsoft is better than paintball Have you ever played airsoft? Well you should. Airsoft is an intense activity were you shoot other people with small projectiles using replicas of real guns. It can be a very intense sport. You can use and/or practice military routines. Airsoft is better than paintball because it's more realistic, it's safer than paintball,and it costs less. Airsoft guns are replicated after real guns. Airsoft guns are replicated after multiple kinds of guns. They replicate guns…