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Interesting ballistic formula
« on: March 18, 2010, 01:14:37 AM »
I found this online but I can't remember where.

FPS x .6818 = MPH.

I was amazed to find out just how fast bullets go.
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Re: Interesting ballistic formula
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2010, 06:00:30 AM »
Good one, Thanks for passing this along !
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Re: Interesting ballistic formula
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2010, 07:12:41 AM »
Or FPS ~ 1.46= MPH [1MPH = 1.46 FPS]

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Re: Interesting ballistic formula
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2010, 02:50:30 AM »
Simply units of conversion:

1.0 hour = 60 seconds * 60 minutes = 3600 seconds
1.0 mile = 5280 feet


 3600 seconds   *    1.0 mile
----------------      ------------
    1.0 hour            5280 feet



FPS = 0.681818...MPH

or the inverse

MPH = 1.46666...FPS