What happens to bullets that are shot straight up into the sky...?

Question

Do they burn up in the atmosphere? Do they disintegrate? Do they go into space? Do they come back down?

Answer 1

They will rise upward, slowing down with time due to the gravity, then will have a momentarily halt before accelerating back to earth.

Answer 2

The flight of a bullet through the air is called external ballistics. The bullet that is shot straight up, after being acted upon by wind and gravity, comes back down. This bullet does not come back to the exact same spot it was shot from due to influences like wind and the rotation of the earth. Then,depending on the speed at which they impact the earth, they either remain intact or disintegrate.

Answer 3

A bullet shot straight up into the sky will decelerate until it reaches its maximum position in the Y plane, where it will reach a velocity of 0, at which point it will fall back to Earth at the acceleration due to gravity in a free fall, with all of the dynamics, such as wind resistance, air density, etc, applied to the projectile.

Answer 4

Bullets can't shot as high as the atmosphere. They either shoot something, or go down! I don't think it will disintegrate!

Answer 5

They come back down... a big crowd of muslims in the middle east were having huge celebration last year and shot ak47 rounds into the sky.. they came down and killed 8 people

Answer 6

they go up about 2 or 3 miles then fall back to the ground. by the way, whoever said a bullet comes down as fast as it goes up is a dumba**!!

Answer 7

Down...


Rarely people get hit in the head by a bullet shot up like that~~~

Answer 8

Unless they are going fast enough to escape the Earth's gravity (they aren't), then they come back down with the same speed as their initial velocity -- which means that they could kill someone.

Answer 9

they come back down at the same speed they went up. stray bullets have been known to cause hundreds of casualties each year.

Answer 10

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