10-29-2015, 06:17 PM
You will need to be adept at partial differential equations and highly advanced calculus to even begin to scratch just a few of those variables, one of the biggest ones not listed being gravity, although you would run it as a constant(even though it isn't).
You have to develop equations for each variable, then make those equations work together to provide a final solution for a specific space-time set of environmental conditions.
Just modeling the gyroscopic spin equations could be enough material to write a Doctoral thesis.
My dad sat down one day and calculated the orbital trajectory of the moon after his wireless keyboard "quit working". He's a physicist and researcher/aerospace engineer type who spent a career working on advanced programs for the DOD. He was a rocket telemetry data technician at the USAF Flight Test Center when I was born, conducting rocket motor plume signature analysis for space-based observation systems.
Anyway, after about a day, he calculated the orbital trajectory of the moon, and determined it to be some speed that was similar to the .270 Winchester. I checked the keyboard and saw that he had put the batteries in backwards...
Moral of the story is, you would need to devote a substantial part of your life to passionately studying and working with high math to begin to even have a rudimentary ballistics solution with just a few variables.
You have to develop equations for each variable, then make those equations work together to provide a final solution for a specific space-time set of environmental conditions.
Just modeling the gyroscopic spin equations could be enough material to write a Doctoral thesis.
My dad sat down one day and calculated the orbital trajectory of the moon after his wireless keyboard "quit working". He's a physicist and researcher/aerospace engineer type who spent a career working on advanced programs for the DOD. He was a rocket telemetry data technician at the USAF Flight Test Center when I was born, conducting rocket motor plume signature analysis for space-based observation systems.
Anyway, after about a day, he calculated the orbital trajectory of the moon, and determined it to be some speed that was similar to the .270 Winchester. I checked the keyboard and saw that he had put the batteries in backwards...
Moral of the story is, you would need to devote a substantial part of your life to passionately studying and working with high math to begin to even have a rudimentary ballistics solution with just a few variables.
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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