2006-09-22 03:12:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
who said that bullet would pass through glass.only if the glass has a hole large enough to allow bullet but small enough to stop the stone this would happen.
never would a bullet pass "through" a glass without breaking it.
2006-09-22 03:23:19 · answer #1 · answered by vaidhee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With a small bullet, the disturbance is so isolated and fast, the glass shear wave occurs as such a short impulse, so doesn't contain enough energy to break the glass very far from the hole. A analogy would be pulling the table cloth out from under a dinner plate; do it fast enough and the plate doesn't have time to respond.
2006-09-22 05:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bullet is small and pointy plus it moves faster than throwing a rock,and only hits a small section of the glass so it can pierce through the Glass the same way you can poke your finger through a cake. A rock is is thick and chunky and is moving slower than the bullet so it hits the glass at a slower speed and comes in more contact with the glass, your fist would crush a cake if you punch it because it is coming in contact with a bigger piece of the cake which cause a bigger reaction and crushes it or destroys the surrounding area. kind of like a shock wave reaction.
2006-09-22 03:29:39 · answer #3 · answered by c0mplicated_s0ul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one is the speed and 2 is the shape of the bullet. A bullet is smaller at one end and larger a the other while the rock is usually a larger piece that is roundish in shape. The bullet Pierces the glass kind of like a needle does to the skin. you ever look at a needle and it is pointy then gets bugger? They could make it all like a flat ended sharp cylinder but they don't they make it smaller to larger like a bullet.
2006-09-22 03:21:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
velocity and size. The smaller, faster bullet punches a hole in glass while the larger and so very much slower rock hits with more surface and breaks the window.
2006-09-22 03:21:22 · answer #5 · answered by William T 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
velocity. i think that is the main reason. plus the bullet is small and with, potentially, direct form allowing it to pass through with little recourse to the remaining glass plate.
2006-09-22 03:29:29 · answer #6 · answered by plasticrooster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rock is solid
Glass is liquid
2006-09-22 03:16:39 · answer #7 · answered by kevin d 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Speed and size are major factors.
2006-09-22 03:15:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋