Do bullets travel at different speeds?
When bullets fly through the air, they do so at amazing speeds. The fastest bullets travel more than 2,600 feet per second. That’s equivalent to over 1,800 miles per hour. To put that in perspective, it’s amazing to realize that bullets travel over twice the speed of sound!
How fast are bullets in mph?
An average bullet travels at around 2736 Kilometers/hour or 1700 miles/hour. That’s 6 times faster than the top speed of the fastest car in the world. Many bullets travel faster than the speed of sound. Bullets are 3 times faster than the commercial jet aircraft at about 400–500 knots.
Do bullets fall down the same speed as they go up?
A: The answer to your question is both yes and no. In the non-existant world where only gravity matters, yes, the bullet would come back down at exactly the same speed as it went up. This is because gravity works to slow things down AND to speed things up.
What happens to a bullet when it falls in a vacuum?
In a vacuum, a bullet would have the same speed coming down as it had coming up at a given height. So once the bullet is falling back down and it’s at the same height from which you fired it, it would have the same speed as it did when you fired it.
Is the velocity of a bullet from the top or bottom?
It will be from the top until the bullet reaches a maxim speed which is terminal velocity (I think it’s called) due to the resistance from the air. All this is happening on the way down after the bullet stops at some point.
Can a bullet Max out at a certain speed?
But it would eventually max out at a certain speed and not go any faster. When you fire a bullet, the explosion of the cartridge forces the bullet out at a much higher speed than its terminal velocity. A typical rifle bullet is traveling around Mach 3 when you fire it, a handgun bullet about Mach 1 (700 miles per hour roughly) plus or minus a bit.