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Query:

Re: Does temperature have an affect on a projectile's impact and distance.

Date: Tue Dec 8 08:40:40 1998
Posted By: Uli Dammer, Secondary School Teacher, -, Gymnasium Liestal
Area of science: Physics
ID: 912450837.Ph
Message:

Dear Tara
I belief that air temperature has only very little effect on a projectile's 
"impact or distance". Cold air has a slightly bigger density compared with 
warmer air and that will slightly increase friction. Relative air humidity, 
within the gun or condensating on the projectile's surface when it is in 
the air, is also affected by the temperature and will indirectly influence 
the projectile weakly. I estimate these effects well below 1 percent.     


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