Re: (TFT) Re: Physics of bullets

[Scott Haley <someotherwag@earthlink.net>]

On Sep 29, 2006, at 7:29 PM, James Eckman wrote:

> One doesn't have to be a physicist to figure out that bullets don't  
> knock people over, shock or surprise do. Just read police reports,  
> there's many cases of people being shot multiple times and who  
> continue to advance. I checked Google for the one case I know  
> about, but its too old. The guy was shot 8 or 9 times in the chest  
> and kept advancing on the officers. He had to be subdued with  
> nightsticks.

On the TV show "Mythbusters," they took a pig carcass, similar in  
mass to a person, and hung it on a special hook.  The hook was  
designed so that if the pig moved back even a little, it would fall  
to the ground.  They shot it with pistols--it didn't get thrown back  
at all.  Shotguns--nothing.  Rifles--nothing.  The way that a gun  
makes its target fly backwards in action films does not happen in  
real life.

--Scott
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