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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}
}
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