Idk why I thought he would use a real bullet and drive at mach 1.5

@awesomestuff9715

Ай бұрын

to be fair, there are subsonic bullets, but that would still be too fast for a car LOL

@alexisleskinen9870

Ай бұрын

I was hoping hed somehow get that toyota up to 700mph.

@flfun2no

Ай бұрын

SAME lol

@_bvck

Ай бұрын

@@alexisleskinen9870 easy 2JZ swap, quad turbos and a laptop will do it No need for any of that land speed aero stuff

@justsomeguywhowatchesanime6810

Ай бұрын

Yeh I was pretty confused.

delivery guy explaining why he always throws my parcels:

@Relkond

Ай бұрын

So science is why I can never have him deliver fine china. 😅😅😅

@etchediniron4249

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@RealMTBAddict

Ай бұрын

Not the same thing 😂

@andrewduncan9657

Ай бұрын

😂

@promptjungle

Ай бұрын

Underrated comment 😅 I congrats you for your brain 🧠 👏🏻

"Ok but how is he going to go supersonic in a car" "Oh"

When you fart in the car and don’t smell it until you turn.

@garymathe9863

18 күн бұрын

Now that's science

@ADDwithJTC

17 күн бұрын

Lmfao 😂😂😂

@Ton12

17 күн бұрын

🎉

@peterman8848

17 күн бұрын

I farted at the exact moment I read this comment

@mo1st_codered114

17 күн бұрын

​@@peterman8848 LMAO NASTY, ALL OF YOU 😭😭😭

"I always wanted to do that." - Albert Einstein

@donpedro00769

Ай бұрын

Plot twist: Albert Einstein always wanted to do a drive-by

@kensosaramos

Ай бұрын

​@@donpedro00769plot extension: against nazis bc he's Jewish.

@chitlitlah

Ай бұрын

If only they'd had automobiles while Einstein was alive...

@ZeroXSEED

Ай бұрын

@@chitlitlah ....bro

@ThePrufessa

Ай бұрын

Whoosh right over your empty head ​@@chitlitlah

My dumbass thinking he was gonna use a real gun

@Netsuko

Ай бұрын

The American way!

@MrCharrrles

23 күн бұрын

well he did say 'gun'

@wheresmygrasses1549

22 күн бұрын

Tbf he didn’t specify

@lotanowo

22 күн бұрын

Nah you’re not dumb for thinking that, this was misleading

@natem1579

22 күн бұрын

He did call it a bullet for some reason, when I ain't ever heard someone call a NERF dart a NERF bullet lmao.

Every so often you gotta check if physics is still working

I mean, my understanding of physics said "Yes, obviously." Yet the rest of my brain said "Watch it happen though!"

@boyvol6428

5 күн бұрын

You knew it would work, but you never actually saw it yourself.

when you finish an entire day's worth of work in like 37 minutes

@tadawakatsu

Ай бұрын

Ah fellow veritasium subscriber.

@FreezingHot

Ай бұрын

"now what?" 😂

@curiosus8668

Ай бұрын

...then tell people they can have a successful KZread career for little to no work.

@minagarajapakshe

Ай бұрын

​@@tadawakatsu funny how your reply has 37 likes exactly

@MrMuz99

Ай бұрын

​@@minagarajapakshe - Beat me to it! 😁

Mythbusters did it with a cannon. Yes, the cannon ball dropped.

@panthrax555

Ай бұрын

iirc they also did it with a basket ball.

@DannyDierickx

Ай бұрын

Came here for this

@NLTops

Ай бұрын

Rehashing old ideas and pretending they're yours is a tale as old as time. But social media took it to the next level.

@Potatoincanada201Unknow-bv1yy

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but they did about 50 attempts 😂😂😂

@craigcallais2110

Ай бұрын

@Potatoincanada201Unknow-bv1yy So, trial and error in an experiment? Everyone gets it right on the first try? Did you really think about that comment before you wrote it? Thank God Oppenheimer didn't get it right on the first try.

give bro like 6 more months and we gonna be seeing an ActionLab drive-by

This is how i would survive a falling elevator

@thesnowman2509

13 күн бұрын

it wouldnt work lol

@ChrisPBacon1434

13 күн бұрын

@@thesnowman2509 nuh uh

@JohnPhillips-2024

12 күн бұрын

So how do you jump when you have nothing to push off of?

@ChrisPBacon1434

12 күн бұрын

@@JohnPhillips-2024 my elevators have floors

@JohnPhillips-2024

12 күн бұрын

@@ChrisPBacon1434not able to push up if it’s falling down. It wasn’t an elevator but I had that experience.

That is actually unreal, I can’t believe you caught that perfectly first try

@TheRealLimerock

Ай бұрын

ye, except he didn't. bullet bounces of his car and change trajectory and momentum...

@jess13133

Ай бұрын

then you clearly dont have good eyes or brain. he shot at the car and the ball bounce up and then fall down.

@puritech1609

Ай бұрын

@@TheRealLimerock Close enough

@Monkey_Luffy01

Ай бұрын

But it didn't hit the vehicle though, as it would change its trajectory.​@@TheRealLimerock

@treudden

Ай бұрын

@@Monkey_Luffy01it hit the silver lining

The wake turbulence of the car is a factor here. Would have sucked the light weight nerf backwards a little (you can see that happening). Not sure how significant it is, though.

@OctagonalSquare

24 күн бұрын

And then it hits the car. But the fact it’s so slow shows that it does cancel out

@neobaldurevermore3757

24 күн бұрын

I'm pretty sure the ball hit the side of the car.

@breachlabs9727

24 күн бұрын

In the United States, your speedometer is allowed a variance of 4%. So even if he was spot on at 55 MPH, it doesn't mean that's exactly how fast he was going. So that's another factor in play here as well. It's also a good tidbit of information to have if you ever get a speeding ticket within that allowed variance

@Anankin12

23 күн бұрын

It literally jus bounced on the car and got imparted some momentum

@jonslg240

23 күн бұрын

If he took the true velocity of the round, and drove the vehicle exactly that speed, the round would fall behind the car as soon as it hit the eddy currents.. However he did this over and over again until he could get everything to conclude to a net result as close to 0 as he could.. thus invalidating the "experiment". This wasn't a true experiment. This was "result matching" to the best expected viewership value.

I mean.. technically you hit it with your car, but if that didnt happen, it would have just dropped.

@No-sj6fy

5 күн бұрын

Dude I was looking for this comment I don’t think anyone else noticed lol

@Mjlovesupersoakers77

23 сағат бұрын

@@No-sj6fyBro same, I was like… but it- it hit the car… that had at least some effect

i was thinking no chance you’r going as fast as a bullet 😅

"What happens when we fire a gun out of a moving vehicle-" Dissapointment sets in when he doesn't pull out a 9 mil

@YoungL_rd

19 күн бұрын

Same concept applies here.

@crestothegecko6279

18 күн бұрын

I had the same disappointment but that also would've have to have been an incredibly fast car lmao

@sohagdawn

18 күн бұрын

Why do y'all type 9 mil and not 9mm..it's a letter more and not even accurate 😂

@billionsmustfight

18 күн бұрын

@@sohagdawn it's colloquial speech, the way it's spoken in a shortened manner

@TM-MDX

18 күн бұрын

@@billionsmustfight it could mean 9 milliliters or 9 million 😂😂😂

Horizontally stationary untill it gets sucked into the car fender and bounces off/forward towards the camera.

@CGammer5680

Ай бұрын

Yes, i was going to point this out myself

@ellisdylan007

Ай бұрын

I disagree, the ball is obviously moving forward until it makes contact with the car

@sergiv5613

Ай бұрын

Because the car and the ball aren't the only things moving. The air around the car is being pushed as well. If he did this in a vacuum, it should go in a straight line down if done perfectly.

@silspd908

Ай бұрын

@@sergiv5613also we don’t know the exact speed of the car or the ball. If he’s off by even 2 kmph, we’ll be able to notice it clearly. I guess he proves what he wanted to albeit with some caveats.

@XYZyt.

Ай бұрын

Nah.

Very cool! The Nerf bullet looked like it was standing still relative to the moving car.

I feel like the air from the car heavily influenced this experiment

@technicianbis5250-ig1zd

12 күн бұрын

No, more to do with the gun which is already travelling in one direction and moving away from the ball rather than the ball from the gun.

@chrisb1047

12 күн бұрын

The air disturbance created by the car only affected the balls vertical drop rate due to gravity. Air resistance in the horizontal direction is minimal its actually experiencing a lift force due to the cars wake. When the gun is fired a new force gets applied which is almost exactly equal to the force necessary to instantly decelerate the ball relative to its initial velocity (the same as the cars).

My dumb ass thinking he was going to drive backwards at 55 😂

@derrickofori330

Ай бұрын

Finally

@danpearson3692

25 күн бұрын

Hahaha

@MrCharrrles

23 күн бұрын

and me thinking he was gonna drive backwards the speed of an actual bullet lmao

@mesmith2526

23 күн бұрын

ROTFLOL!! Was just picturing Mr. Bean in his little Fiat 😂

@gisnotalizard

22 күн бұрын

SAME

The ball hit the car immediately due to the air flow

@SimonVaIe

25 күн бұрын

​@@Naftoor the ball never really moved in the air until it hit the car. The demonstration went well enough.

@DoneWright22

25 күн бұрын

I think the demonstration was perfection! The car probably gave it the bit of backspin that bounced it forward a bit

@Maliceinponderland

24 күн бұрын

​@@SimonVaIerewatch the video my guy it did make distance until it hit the car

@SimonVaIe

24 күн бұрын

@@Maliceinponderland like, 5cm, because it's unrealistic to perfectly match the speed of the car with the speed of the ball?

@bovice5072

23 күн бұрын

@@Maliceinponderland Great example of a comment so desperate to be contrarian that you ultimately miss the point of discussion.

That shot was indeed impressive

Everybody gangsta until Action "One Shot" Labs rolls up...

@andycremeans

14 күн бұрын

Omg

I may be wrong, but the ball looks like it hit the back of his car to me.

@williamcarter7655

22 күн бұрын

Saw that too….

@MikaeruDaiTenshi

22 күн бұрын

Yes, which is probably why it flew into the direction of the camera afterwards.

@aro2103

22 күн бұрын

You are not wrong

@devingarrett5152

21 күн бұрын

Totally does

@edover51315

21 күн бұрын

Very much. Which kind of invalidates half the video

It looked like the light foam was sucked into the aerodynamics, the air path, of the car.

@Thomas-wh4ox

Ай бұрын

Exactly. Was wondering how no one noticed such an obvious thing.

@Tire24

Ай бұрын

It bounced off the side of the car which pushed it forward slightly. It wasn't sucked behind the car because it rolled back towards the camera, away from the car's path.

@scootermom1791

Ай бұрын

​@@Thomas-wh4oxthat's "obvious"? Lol Disclosure: my brain doesn't work like that. I'm terrible at science but am fascinated by it, too. 🙂

@thisguyhd6591

Ай бұрын

​@@scootermom1791 well "we" the guys who noticed thinks it was very obvious

@versuzzero5335

Ай бұрын

If this is in an exam, "ignore air resistance"...

Now try the same thing, but inside the vehicle and watch the laws of physics change.

Physics is so amazing. When numbers tell you something, then you go run your experience and it’s true.

I think what is more interesting about this video is the dynamics of fluids. It didn’t just “drop” but the aerodynamics of the car came into play. Very cool experiment

@slimshady8252

17 күн бұрын

instead of it just dropping it stays suspended in the current before it falls

@methatis3013

17 күн бұрын

I think it bounced a bit off the car itself so it got a little bit of spin which made it move more than it usually would. Maybe Im not seeing right though

@baconthevainglorious7371

16 күн бұрын

@@methatis3013it’s both prolly. The air kinda sticks to the car and drags everything along, that’s why it ended up going in the same direction as the car. But it probably got a good spin from glancing the car, which made it fly way off to the side all weird like too.

@sandanpaddack8789

16 күн бұрын

@@methatis3013Yeah I noticed that too it hit the car and bounced up which made it lose its speed

@MarcillaSmith

15 күн бұрын

​@@methatis3013no, you saw it exactly correct, unlike the gaslighting narration about how it ,"just hangs in the air.'

Gangs taking notes

@Vikanuck

Ай бұрын

Yeah but they tend to do their drive by’s more perpendicularly to their target… I guess because their chief accounting officers figured that one out when assessing risk management for them lol 😂

@EpicGammingCrew

Ай бұрын

For all the gangs doin drive bys on bullet trains lol

@Thomas-wh4ox

Ай бұрын

The Yakuza😂​@@EpicGammingCrew

@scootermom1791

Ай бұрын

Lol

@scootermom1791

Ай бұрын

​@@Vikanuck you give them too much credit. I bet most gang members don't know the meaning of risk management. Lol 😅😂😅

So its safe to say that the faster we drive, our bullets do less damage

It looks like it contacted the car which would have a big effect on the movement.

The car and the ball aren't the only things moving. The air around the car is being pushed as well. If he did this in a vacuum, it should go in a straight line down if done perfectly.

@HyperMario64

Ай бұрын

I agree. The result here was really good surprisingly. But we could be even more pedantic. In a vacuum, how would the moving car affect the trajectory of the ball from the camera POV, from a relativistic point of view?

@NotSoMuchFrankly

23 күн бұрын

@@HyperMario64 This is just high school physics. The real problem of doing this in a vacuum is his eyes would bulge out, his bodily fluids would perforate his weaker tissues and he would die, making it difficult to drive, much less fire the gun later. High school was cruel.

@seanparsons8987

22 күн бұрын

. . .and combustion engines dont work in a vacuum . . .

@sergiv5613

22 күн бұрын

@@seanparsons8987 It could. With a oxidizer intake, like a turbo. Anyways, there's electric cars that will work for this example.

@Regoriroger

22 күн бұрын

​@sergiv5613 there's also the holodeck.

There was a Mythbusters episode in which they shoot a cannon from a moving car and perfectly create a free fall, this beautiful demonstration reminded me that. Always a pleasure to watch your videos!

@kyetes.866

16 күн бұрын

I thought of the exact same episode

@nasis18

15 күн бұрын

Miss that show.

@bertjesklotepino

14 күн бұрын

I remember Jamie explaining how he wanted to test this myth and have a person be shot from a cannon. He was not allowed to do that. BUT so you say there is an episode that shows them shooting a cannon etc etc? Hmm, i gosta check into that. As for you all: There is a channel on youtube posting all the episodes of the Mythbusters online. Cant remember the name, but easy enough to find.

If he did that with a cannon, the ball would circle the earth.

To be fair, I think it bounced off the side of the car too.

That has to be an incredible coincidence that you got that on the first try! You only had like 1/4 sec to shoot that in to get it in the frame!

@geroutathat

Ай бұрын

1/4 a second is a long time

@azrobbins01

Ай бұрын

​@@geroutathat Maintaining speed, watching the road, steering, pointing the gun in the correct direction, hitting the trigger at the precise moment. I think you must be a troll if you think that would be easily achievable on the first try. Or a kid with very little life experience and have not tried anything like this before.

@4bschaum

Ай бұрын

@@azrobbins01 to be fair with cruise control this seems managable. still first try is mad impressive

@yoniteclas

Ай бұрын

Also we are seeing a vertical window of what might be a long landscape wide shot. So the timing tolerance would be higher than the apparent

If I remember correctly mythbusters did this with a bowling ball.

@thomasbudianto-qn5jh

Ай бұрын

Care to share the result?🙏

@smileyp4535

Ай бұрын

⁠well physics is physics so the results were probably the same provided they did everything else right

@Skyriiing

Ай бұрын

@@thomasbudianto-qn5jh The results were the same.

@thomasbudianto-qn5jh

Ай бұрын

@@smileyp4535 thank you.👍

@thomasbudianto-qn5jh

Ай бұрын

@@Skyriiing thank you.👍

In all fairness the ball hit the back of the car which completely changes the results. Nice shot tho

Darn impressive demonstration. Having it work first try must feel pretty good.

No cap! This is one of the coolest most straightforward phenomena you've demonstrated.

Fun fact, look up "B-58 Hustler tail gun". It could fly so fast that the bullets came out of the tail gun going backwards! (relative to the ground)

I'm pretty sure the ball made contact with the car

Great physics experiment!!

Now try that at 3000km/h with a gun

@s.h7124

Ай бұрын

It’s gonna be 3000k minus 55 mph.

@iyeadsanbeats2917

Ай бұрын

If he try at 1km less as bullet . That bullet Can kill?

@foximacentauri7891

Ай бұрын

I don’t know of any gun that shoots a bullet at 1% of light speed.

@Bokkie100k

25 күн бұрын

​@@foximacentauri78910,00028% of the speed of light

This humble man clearly has a history of successful drive-bys.

I don't know if that would apply to an actual bullet

So basically, the delivery man just isn't throwing the packages hard enough, or else they would land as softly as he intended🙃

Ah! So THAT'S why the F-16 has no tail gunner?! 🤯

@mehrdad4784

Ай бұрын

There is a plane behind the plane with the tail gunner which presumably has the same velocity...

@MySquishable

Ай бұрын

So when that plane runs into the bullets it would be like hitting a wall of bullets, so i think a reverse gun may be effective

@Green-ader

Ай бұрын

No

@kazuya99ace

Ай бұрын

Lmao 🤣 Amazing bro, you learning in reverse Or maybe relative to you, I learned 2 things and you learned nothing

@mrpresident8546

25 күн бұрын

The f-16s velocity would be added to the bullet's velocity, so in a vacuum the bullet would go the speed of a bullet + the speed of the f-16, but the bullet's air resistance after leaving the barrel means they wouldnt be able to go much faster than the plane, or maybe even slower (without further propulsion, ie missiles) space fighters would probably be able to utilize projectile-type weapons since the hazard goes off to infinity instead of lagging behind you

When he said gun I thought it would be a real bullet and I got excited

dude you just collectively fulfilled all of our childhoods' curiosity

This is probably my favorite thing I’ve seen on here in a while. Independent, right to the experiment, success and cool as fuck!

Man's a natural gangsta

This was realized by fighter jet engineers when the jets started flying faster than their bullets. An F4 ended up ingesting its own cannon rounds by catching up to them.

@xenophobicsokkorean6055

Ай бұрын

It wasn’t an F4…. It was an F-11 Tiger. The pilot fired a few rounds off and dove at an angle, which allowed him to catch up to the rounds and hit himself

@dianapennepacker6854

Ай бұрын

Damn beat me to it! Happened to Soviets as well. Yet it makes sense. One is losing energy. The other has constant thrust. At first I thought he said if he shot it forward will the ball stay in place. I'm like WTF? Hasn't anyone tossed a ball in the air while running forward? It doesn't just go straight up.

@localbod

Ай бұрын

@LordFalconsword Have you got a link to an article about the F-4 incident?

@HyperShadow949494

Ай бұрын

Wrong. The bullets would be traveling at their muzzle velocity relative to the jet. The only way the jet could catch up to the bullets is if it accelerated, which is not related to this video.

@JaenEngineering

Ай бұрын

​@@HyperShadow949494or if the bullets decelerated, which they would do due to drag the second they left the barrel...

The ball was like: "Bro don't leave me here bro wait PLEASE!"

That’s pretty cool. Like the math is clear and understandable as to why and how this happens but it’s cool to actually see it happen

Seemed to levitate like the Coyote after he runs off a cliff... like it was confused until it looked down.

When dude said "bullet" I thought he was about to drive by in a rocket ship.

It hit your car but doesn’t take away from the cool factor. Great vid

If you're confused, remember that the "perspective" is from the gun, not the camera. 1 second after release, the ball is the exact distance from the car as 55 mph would justify in 1 second.

Relativity is fun.

@timokimo8206

Ай бұрын

Stop bringing einstein into everything 😅

@ittaiklein8541

Ай бұрын

This has absolutely no relationship to relativity! The setup of the experiment is rather crude !

@chotatopips4177

Ай бұрын

​This is relative motion in action though.

@KnugLidi

Ай бұрын

@@ittaiklein8541 it is relative motion. It is not general relativity or special relativity, which were Einstein's

@biggieyackboi

Ай бұрын

@@ittaiklein8541i believe if you want to be pedantic it is relativity, just galilean relativity. though people usually aren’t referring to galilean relativity when they say relativity

Officer: do you know why I pulled you over?

I think the drag force was so strong, that it stopped the mini ball

Dude explained basic vector addiction.

finally getting into those trick shot shorts i always see 😂

My first thought was "Oh that must have taken so many takes" :)

This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen

Like your videos, keep it up.

Bro calculated the speed of the ball using a tape and a camera💀💀💀

@calebhall812

22 күн бұрын

Yeah? That's not actually that impressive.

@nomoneylagaogaming5177

22 күн бұрын

@@calebhall812 Ok boomer

@calebhall812

22 күн бұрын

@@nomoneylagaogaming5177 you have a herobrine icon, we will be in the retirement homes one right after the other.

@castleanthrax1833

21 күн бұрын

@nomeneylagaogaming5177. OK renter.

@drew7155

21 күн бұрын

​@@calebhall812 bet you've never done it

I thought he was talking about an actual gun, and I started thinking there's no way he could even come close to going that fast in that car

That is because, the energy used to shoot the ball gets used to negate the inertia of the ball which is also moving at same speed of the car.

That’s crazy you got it on the first go round! Well done.

Bro…. WHY DID I THINK YOU WERE GOING TO USE A REAL GUN!?! Edit: HOLY SH!T! WHY DID SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE THIS! OMG!

@spidersmining20

25 күн бұрын

There is no way in hell you can get a Toyota up to mach 1.5

@thejonatan._

24 күн бұрын

Yeah i was thinking how he was gonna get a car to go the speed of a bullet

@eboqz

24 күн бұрын

It's America, wouldn't surprise me

Please do not do this alone again. This is EXACTLY why youtubers get so much hate. Have a second person do it so you don't need to be DRIVING while hanging part of your body out of the window, distracted.

@brucer.5403

Ай бұрын

ok Karen

@seanbrockest3888

Ай бұрын

@@brucer.5403 you're really using that term wrong.

@SamMaddie2

Ай бұрын

@@brucer.5403 A Karen complains when something reasonable mildly inconveniences them personally. This person's saying this out of concern for TheActionLab and others' safety. They're not being a Karen.

@brucer.5403

Ай бұрын

@@SamMaddie2 I'm sure James is a big boy and can look out for his own safety.

@SamMaddie2

Ай бұрын

@@brucer.5403 I'm sure he can, but it doesn't change the fact that what he's doing is dangerous to an extent, including to others, and that it could be easily mitigated by just having someone else drive while he leans out the window and shoots. There's a reason laws about texting and driving etc (things that may draw your attention away from the phone) exist. No need to make a big fuss out of this. I hold no ill will towards James and I'm sure @seanbrockest3888 just wanted to point out that this could be handled more safely in the future.

“You can see the ball slowly falling down” Ball slowly rises higher into the air

Yes. The SR-71, the experimental one, caught up to it's own bullets when they tried putting a boomstick on it.

The ball actually made contact with the car first though.

I first thought car and background was on green screen 😂😂

And my ass thinking he’d shoot a real bullet

That was awesome!

I love it when a plan comes together 😊

@michaelberna4836

Ай бұрын

Is that you Hannibal!

Got to admit he makes the best shorts." What do ya think?"

He totally made me think he was going to fire a real gun

You can calculate the air resistane from the cancelled forces of the bullet drop

@karezaalonso7110

Ай бұрын

I think you mean cancelled speed (vectors) not forces

@notmewooshme9916

Ай бұрын

​@karezaalonso7110 force is the correct term. Next time smarty pant 👍🏻

@karezaalonso7110

Ай бұрын

@@notmewooshme9916 can you describe the force diagram?

@DG_plusrandomnumbers

Ай бұрын

That would be a lot easier to measure by just dropping it lol. Definitely not as fun though

Finally, someone made a video experiment about it

@bxel2001

25 күн бұрын

14 years after the Mythbusters did it

As you can see the ball falling down *the ball in which is currently going up*

Tricking the audience by calling a nerf pellet a bullet was sneaky

the net velocity of the bullet was (velocity of bullet - velocity of car) as the bullet already had velocity of car in left and the firing velocity of bullet was in right and the air resistance was also acting on the bullet on the left side therefore after sometime the the net velocity of the bullet got null and because of the air resistance the bullet came a bit back and there was also the acc due to gravity acting downwards due to which the ball fell backwards in a parabolic path hope this explanation is correct

@aerowalker3

Ай бұрын

I think you got all the factors at play totally right. Although the initial moving to the right is probably more because the car wasn’t going exactly the speed the ball is launched. Something like 54.8 mph. Stinking close, but just enough that the ball has a little extra velocity the other way. Air resistance, air flow, and gravity definitely immediately came into play after that, though. To be fair, it’s impossible to know which forces are causing the most movement when the movements here are so minute in comparison to the speed he’s traveling. It’s probably a combination of the answers.

awesome experiment!

I never thought about this, thank you!

So shooting a gun backwards out of a car while speeding down the highway wouldn’t work like in the movies?

@loxitto

5 күн бұрын

It would. This experiment only works if the speed of the bullet is equal to the speed of the car. A real bullet would travel way faster than the car.

my dumbass: “how are you gonna drive 1,300 mph?”

Conservation of Momentum !!

@DANGJOS

Ай бұрын

And conservation of energy

@norbertnagy5514

Ай бұрын

Forces cancelling each other out in opposing directions

@B.LEGENDS

Ай бұрын

@@norbertnagy5514 F = MA If F=0 M could Never be O Therefore A=0

@fernando4959

18 күн бұрын

@@norbertnagy5514 ...3rd law wait that doesn't sound right

You didn't take into account the drag of the car.

It looked like the car was pushing so much air that it affected the soft fluffy bullet.🔫

That bullet also has lots of air resistance and low weight. A BB gun would be a better test I think.

@Blackmark52

Ай бұрын

"A BB gun would be a better test I think." Air resistance is already calculated for in measuring the speed. About the only difference to the essential physics is that the car would have to travel 375 mph (by my calculation).

@guadalupe8589

Ай бұрын

A BB comes out far faster than 55 mph.....

@dalehatton6965

Ай бұрын

Like you're going to be able to see a BB 😂

@brucer.5403

Ай бұрын

@@Blackmark52 Right? LOL

@ACatLoversHandle

Ай бұрын

Ah. I didn’t realize air resistance was already calculated. Idk why I assumed, but I did. Sounds stupid. Also like some of yall said, if he used a BB gun you wouldn’t see it well. Not unless he used a camera that can record at higher fps though.

So, if Marty McFly shoots a Nerf gun backwards at 88mph out of Doc Brown's DeLorean, does the Nerf pellet go back to 1955 or 2015?

@0neIntangible

Ай бұрын

Flux capacitor has to be readily charged up.

@SamMaddie2

Ай бұрын

I thought we just learned from the video that the Nerf pellet WOULDN'T time travel, because it's not going 88mph from a stationary frame of reference, no?

@thudthud5423

Ай бұрын

@@SamMaddie2 Ah! Science!

This is one of the most interesting things I've seen in weeks. I want to know where this idea came from. Physics are so freaking cool.

Theoretically yes. Is fine but a real yes is always amazing.

While the results seem to align, the gun is pneumatic and the barrel is in the slip stream of the car so you can’t verify that the projectile was truly propelled to the correct velocity which makes this test invalid.

@charleshill506

23 күн бұрын

Define what test this was supposed to be. I thought it was to see what would happen if you shot a projectile backward at the same speed you were going forward. We saw what would happen, exactly as expected. There were no limits defined on the test or results so quit trying to piss on the video. Physics profs talk about this but few show it as well.