Ballistics
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Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets and the like
Gaetano Marzagaglia, Del calcolo balistico, 1748
Baseball throws can exceed 100 mph.
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USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside 1984.
Ballistic missile
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A ballistic missile is a type of missile that follows a ballistic trajectory and is powered only during a relatively brief initial period—most of the flight is unpowered. Short-range ballistic missile
Ballistics
…such as those exerted by pressurized gases from a gun barrel or a propelling nozzle, normal force by rifling, and gravity and air drag during flight. A ballistic missile is a missile that is guided only during the relatively brief initial phase of powered flight, with the trajectory subsequently governed by the laws of…
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Trident II SLBM launched by ballistic missile submarine