Physics and Paintball

[Pacifist_Farmer]

yeah the ban on the EIT exam makes me mad, I have a perfectly good calculator right here and I have to go out and get a new one

[sig11]

I get a kick out of lending mine to people who don't know RPN.

They get this funny look on their faces... like they had an accident.

[spacedtedybear]

It may not be exact, but it gives a good general idea. Do you need to know that the range is about .3m shorter because of air resistance?

Well, it depends on your elevation.

College Phys 2 for me is electricity and magnetism. Its kinda fun. heh I don't see what everyone complained about. Its pretty simple.

You're smoking crack. Of course, I had an instructer with a russian accent thicker than molasses on a cold winter day in Canada. Trying to understand the material and translate the lecture at the same time is very exhausting.

Being able to say "the ball will travel this far, at these speeds" is much more useful to us in the paintball world than accurately modeling the system with every minor detail. Assume some "efficiency", like 70 or 60 percent, multiply your ""highschool physics" results by the chosen effieciency, and youll probably get a pretty good idea of the balls path.

Yeah, but it's frustrating to hear some people **tch & moan about how velocity and distance calculations is totally inaccurate because we're not counting windresistence and such. I just want to actually calculate it with every minor detail so that when someone says something about it, I can just whip out the calculations, lean back, and smile while they're looking at it dumbfounded. ( <- Kinda like that)

Now if your really getting into the mechanics of your marker where actual effeciencies do matter, and performance doesnt necessarily vary with regard to wind resistance, which is a constantly changing variable, then you'll need some higher level fluid flow, and thermodynamic thinking. This is where your college degree might come in handy.

Which is in line with what I may want to go into someday. That or nuclear stuff.

[tony3]

Does anyone else hate physics? I know I sure do....

[Pacifist_Farmer]

I hate it with all my heart, and thats why i choose a field based on it


ugh.. Nuclear is sooooo 1990's (insert valley girl accent)

go with fluid dynamics (CFD's), whatever type of program that may be at your chosen college, its being used everywhere, and as long as people use computers youll have a job.

[spacedtedybear]

I don't know. A nuclear powered paintball marker sounds very appealing.

[Mr. Frodo]

I don't know. A nuclear powered paintball marker sounds very appealing.

Speaking of which... back in the day of Splat Masters, I remember seeing an ad for a type of paintball that had fins on it. It's shape reminded me of one of our first nukes, Fat Man.

[goddom]

I was reading something either in this forum or on the AGD site talking about a bullet shaped paintball. The army asked AGD to design a more accurate paintball and so the design they came out with was bullet shaped. It would be cool if they persued that, but the cost to manufacture it and the resulting accuracy increase may not be worth it.

I saw on TV once cops practicing hostage rescue and all that through buildings and they were shooting each other with a paintball like thing that was shot from an actual pistol and was propelled with gunpowder. It looked like it might hurt like hell, but it was it looked like it might be fun.Plus the masks they had were pretty cool too. They looked like really nice paintball masks.