The Physics Of Balling

[Munkeh]

Originally posted by Steve Hancock
All credit to the guy for sitting down and putting some thought in to a opten ingnored area of our sport.

How ever one error i noticed was the assumption that once the ball has left the barrel the marker exerts no force on it.

Place a ball on the table and dry fire one shot at it from 6 inchs away. I'm pretty sure it will move.

I am unsure what exactly you are trying to say? That the cushion of air behind the ball will exert a force on it after it leaves the barrel? or from another fired just after it? I think the force after it leaves the barrel is close to negligible and too complex to model. Hell he forgot the force that the sunlight exerts on it as well.. oh and cosmic rays!

 

[joe bob]

the phisics of paintball

if you have a good paint/barrel match the paintball will fly streight enough to hit somthing at a reasonable distance, if you get a break in the barrel it will be much more difficult

flatlines make paintballs shoot farther, if you get a barrel break in that it is no good unless you clean it

the faster your fingers move the faster you shoot

the faster you run the harder it is for you to hit somthing

 

[John_Wilson]

If anybodys interested somewhere I have a mag simulator written in C not sure if it works, seems to, but I don't have vax c.
will get it from work if peeps want it.

 

[Steve Hancock]

Originally posted by Munkeh
I am unsure what exactly you are trying to say? That the cushion of air behind the ball will exert a force on it after it leaves the barrel? or from another fired just after it? I think the force after it leaves the barrel is close to negligible and too complex to model. Hell he forgot the force that the sunlight exerts on it as well.. oh and cosmic rays!

I was talking about the air from the first shot. I held a ball an inch or so from the tip of my barrel and dry fired a shot at it and it went a couple of feet. It's not a huge force but then we are looking at a complex system were a 1% or 2% difference could be significant.

Unfortunatley i've been unable to get similar results with sunlight.