An Acoustic Method for Determining Ballistic Coefficients
Popular Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
This paper presents a method for using a PC soundcard, microphone and a chronograph to determine bullet BC with an accuracy of 6%. This is useful when a second chronograph is unavailable or when the projectile accuracy is insufficient to use a far chronograph.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0705.0391,
title = {An Acoustic Method for Determining Ballistic Coefficients},
author = {Michael Courtney and Amy Courtney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0391},
year = {2007}
}