Sentence examples for of a projectile from inspiring English sources

Ballistic pendulum, device for measuring the velocity of a projectile, such as a bullet.

This is useful, for example, in recording the motion of the front of an explosion cloud or of a projectile.

Seconds where your hearts skipped beats when the whooshing sound of a projectile was followed by an explosion.

Hou, M., Peng, Z., Liu, R., Lu, K. & Chan, C. K. Dynamics of a projectile penetrating in granular systems.

The parabola is the path, neglecting air resistance and rotational effects, of a projectile thrown outward into the air.

It is available for transfer into other forms of energy for example, into the kinetic energy of a projectile from a catapult.

One of the most infamous incidents of misidentifying a projectile's trajectory took place in 1995, when a Norwegian weather rocket nearly triggered a nuclear war.

But even if downing a missile is a desired goal, the rapid and sometimes imprecise calculations of where a projectile is headed make that a challenge.

About 10 years ago, I penned a report for Analytical Chemistry entitled "The Magic of Cluster SIMS", espousing the virtues of C60 as a projectile.

The tapping of ankles on a three-year-old that released a projectile stream of fluid followed by steroid injections.

Impact simulations are run for the case of a spherical projectile of diameter 5.556 mm impacting a single layer of 50.8 × 50.8 mm, edge-clamped, unbacked, aramid fabric.