paintball physics

[KEN CRANE]

http://home.comcast.net/~dyrgcmn/pball/pballphys1.html

[wdp child]

reading hurts my brain......

[dynastySSS]

kool ken

[1boobfromSector 7-G]

If anybody would read though all of that and gives us a summary that would be great.

[BuNkErEd]

:dito:

[MachineGunKelly]

Physics Good!!!
Chopping Paint Bad!!! :elephant:

[Botmaster5]

anyone play with the java trajectory thingie... i got 351.7 ft =) :cheers:

[127.0.0.1]

All of that basically comes down to...

Quit bitchin' about accuracy/range, STFU, and PLAY! :smiley:

It's very hard to improve the current accuracy and range of paintball guns without modifying the shape of the paintball itself.

[TaterSalad]

Yeah, as long as paintballs are filled with paint we aren't going to see a great gain in accuracy. My father has a Ph.D. in Physics and we both have the same opinion. Shape, wieght, and the liquid content of paintballs hinder them from being highly accurate. As for a paraphrased edition of the link above... i can't help all that much. It's way too long.

[1boobfromSector 7-G]

I always figured if paintballs came in the shape of a bullet they would be better on accuracy and so on, but I never have been able to come up with a way to get them in to the gun, expect for some type of a magazine, like a 9mm has.

Can you see somebody having 150 round magizane sticking up from behind a bunker? There would have to be some type of rule saying hits on the mag. didn't count.

[TaterSalad]

Another hard concept to grasp is that if a gun is fired parallel to perfectly flat ground and a bullet is dropped from the same height as the chamber of the gun, and the gun is fired at the same instant the bullet is dropped from the hand; both bullets will hit the ground at the same time.

As a rough experiment you can take any two of the same objects and through one in a parallel fashion to the ground and drop the other from the same hieght at the moment you let go of the object being thrown you will see that they both fall to the floor at the same time. any inconsistancies in the experiment are due to human errors. what i have said above is a fact. the velocity of the item thrown or shot does not have an effect on the timing of the impact of the object.

paintball trajectory works in the shame way. wind, and or air pockets may cause the paintball to change its time of impact, but under the perfect circumstances the paintballs would have the same result as the bullets.

[127.0.0.1]

AGD's less lethal FN303...




It has more range and accuracy compared to regular paintballs... take a look at the shape.

And yes it is a PAINTBALL... just not a regular one.

Ok maybe not range, but definitely accuracy is much improved.

[Jouster]

Originally Posted by 127.0.0.1

AGD's less lethal FN303...
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It has more range and accuracy compared to regular paintballs... take a look at the shape.

And yes it is a PAINTBALL... just not a regular one.

Ok maybe not range, but definitely accuracy is much improved.

omg id totally put a maxflo on it d00d, or it won't fire for $h**!!!! lolkthx

o btw Angels are teh sux0rz!!!!111!!!! ur gay

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Sorry, couldn't resist imagining the PBN kiddies' reaction to that gun.

Jouster

[127.0.0.1]

No it's not for sale to the masses like us... :(

[NotALamer]

d00d stfu!!11 i'd still put a maxflo on it

kthxbye