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The sheet will have a hole in it just like this thread has...Are we still on this subject? I thought we "covered" it quite well on the first page. By The Way...Try bleach to get rid of the lead stains...
i CAN see it happening. i thought the title of the thread was stupid at first but upon considering...
***IF***
the sheet is small enough, say 1 square foot, and you let it free fall and shoot it with a big round bullet like a .45, wouldn't sheet just wrap around the bullet and keep flying with it for a while? if the sheet is hung, fixed on something, or laying flat on a bed then of course the bullet will go through, but i think it's possible that a smal and light sheet that isn't attached to anything will just fly with the bullet until in drops to the ground.
*if i'm wrong then i made the right choice not to major in physics or any other natural science.
it would flip and fold freefalling, how bout' hung by two VERY fine threads...or even hair if you got one long enough, cool idea with the 1ft square cloth, it would look pretty crazy to see a cloth flyin' about 900 fps through the air, loke a crazy little ghost on steroids
I Think it would depend on how tightly stretched the sheet is. If its just hanging loose, your friends theory is probably right, but if its stretched out tight enough, a bullet will go right through
If you think about the physics involved, the answer should be obvious. Even a small, silk hanky will be held in place by inertial forces, gravity and the air resistance on the back of the hanky. It will take a finite amount of time for the hanky to overcome these forces and move backwards enough to allow the bullet, traveling at several hundred feet per second, to pass under the hanky without cutting the threads. Without doing the math, it seems obvious that could not happen, and that the projectile will cut the threads faster than the hanky can respond.
Ya gotta remember...The bullet is sneaking up on the poor defenseless hanky at a rather rapid rate of speed. The defenseless hanky (or sheet) hasn't a clue that the bullet is coming unanounced. The perferation by the bullet of the hanky will be instantaneous. Simply put. One hanky (or sheet) one hole.
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