Will the bullet drop straight down?

Physics is awesome!
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[@goldy_on_pc930]

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

[@awesomestuff9715]

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

[@alexisleskinen9870]

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

[@flfun2no]

SAME lol

[@_bvck]

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

[@justsomeguywhowatchesanime6810]

Yeh I was pretty confused.

[@ZIN74FF]

delivery guy explaining why he always throws my parcels:

[@Relkond]

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

[@etchediniron4249]

🤣🤣🤣

[@RealMTBAddict]

Not the same thing 😂

[@andrewduncan9657]

😂

[@promptjungle]

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

[@StandAndStare]

Officer: "Do you know how fast you were going?" Me: "1 inch per frame."

[@demevfilms]

😂😂

[@FeelMetalMan]

Americans will go to any length not to use the metric system

[@GyvonJante]

🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

[@GyvonJante]

@@FeelMetalManthat’s a stupid statement. We use imperial on a normal basis. That’s like you going to any length not to use old English. Why not? Because it’s not the standard of your life surroundings!🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@FeelMetalMan]

@@GyvonJante I actually agree with you, but the meme is here to stay

[@tatsuyashiba6931]

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

[@corbinaycock1918]

😂 I Thoght the same thing

[@dylanmichalski5637]

What?

[@darryldcruz5979]

You get a jet powered car. You put cameras everywhere. you'll probably die

[@cristianornelas2893]

😂😂😂😂 I thought the same

[@Dimensiom]

I just assumed that he would be using a .45ACP round. Those are subsonic.

[@O4C209]

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

[@donpedro00769]

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

[@kensosaramos]

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

[@chitlitlah]

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

[@ZeroXSEED]

@@chitlitlah ....bro

[@ThePrufessa]

Whoosh right over your empty head ​@@chitlitlah

[@craigcallais2110]

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

[@panthrax555]

iirc they also did it with a basket ball.

[@DannyDierickx]

Came here for this

[@NLTops]

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

[@Potatoincanada201]

Yeah, but they did about 50 attempts 😂😂😂

[@craigcallais2110]

@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.

[@1awesome180]

Every so often you gotta check if physics is still working

[@icube3514]

Game testing😂

[@anonymous_4276]

Aka an experiment.

[@ngurezmr1505]

You might find they changed it

[@georgevigil7001]

🙌🏽😂

[@Brondon96]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@skylerk55]

Now drive the speed of light and turn your headlight on

[@Ryan30z]

1. You can't 2. If you're going 99% the speed of light and turn a light on, that light still moves away from you at the speed of light.

[@ethanwilliams9235]

Ignoring the fact that we currently can't move that fast, relativity says that the light will still be moving away from you at the exact same speed that it would be for a stationary outside observer. However, to the person standing still, the light will be "shifted" to a higher or lower wavelength, depending on if you're moving towards or away from them - same concept as the Doppler effect.

[@anthonyhovens7488]

If that doesn't make sense, don't worry. General relativity barely ever makes intuitive sense...

[@s.owl9]

None of these explanations help me... Would the light simply move at the same speed as the vehicle therefore look like its "glued" to the headlight or would it accelerate from an initial velocity provided by the vehicle & surpass the speed of light? I think the answer is the 1st scenario

[@anthonyhovens7488]

@@s.owl9 no, the light is going at 3x10^8m/s (c) from the perspective of everyone regardless of their own velocity. If you were in the car going 99.999% c, you would experience severe time dilation compared to a stationary observer. You would literally experience time slower so the light would still apear to move away from you at c. A stationary observer would see you going at 99.999%c and the light going at c because the are not under the same effects of time dilation. So the speed of light relative to other moving objects entirely depends on how you observe it...

[@Endermax187]

My dumbass thinking he was gonna use a real gun

[@Netsuko]

The American way!

[@MrCharrrles]

well he did say 'gun'

[@wheresmygrasses1549]

Tbf he didn’t specify

[@lotanowo]

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

[@natem1579]

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

[@jays2551]

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

[@tadawakatsu]

Ah fellow veritasium subscriber.

[@FreezingHot]

"now what?" 😂

[@curiosus8668]

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

[@minagarajapakshe]

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

[@MrMuz99]

​@@minagarajapakshe - Beat me to it! 😁

[@bobsmoot8454]

I’m glad someone understands math and physics

[@queteden48273]

Ok now at the same direction that the car is going, will the bullet stay on the gun?

[@Noorthia]

no..

[@Rocksidion]

I'd like to imagine it could be possible when taking the friction of air into account as a force on the nerf bullet. However, there is also the possibility that the force provided by the gun could overcome the push of air. Fun stuff to think about for sure.

[@queteden48273]

@@Rocksidion definitely, I would love to se that, we are especulating here

[@O111e]

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

[@JosephQPublic]

It did… I’m not sure why it wasn’t talked about…

[@billionsmustfight]

"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]

Same concept applies here.

[@crestothegecko6279]

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

[@sohagdawn]

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

[@billionsmustfight]

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

[@TM-MDX]

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

[@mas7937]

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

[@TillTheLightTakesUs]

Indeed, our entire civilization is built around those numbers.

[@PiethagorasTearem]

The wind from the car changed the balls trajectory

[@paulsaulpaul]

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]

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

[@neobaldurevermore3757]

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

[@breachlabs9727]

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]

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

[@jonslg240]

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.

[@EpicGammingCrew]

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

[@TheRealLimerock]

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

[@jess13133]

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

[@puritech1609]

@@TheRealLimerock Close enough

[@Monkey_Luffy01]

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

[@treudden]

@@Monkey_Luffy01it hit the silver lining

[@youtubersdigest]

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

[@parallaxx101]

Even John Wick would need 7 drive-by's ! * Your puppy is super safe 👍

[@TurboNerdPrime]

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

[@CGammer5680]

Yes, i was going to point this out myself

[@ellisdylan007]

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

[@sergiv5613]

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]

@@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.]

Nah.

[@elaniarkady7351]

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

[@E.after.D.I.am.T.H]

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

[@Tire24]

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]

​@@E.after.D.I.am.T.Hthat's "obvious"? Lol Disclosure: my brain doesn't work like that. I'm terrible at science but am fascinated by it, too. 🙂

[@thisguyhd6591]

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

[@versuzzero5335]

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

[@igorino1767]

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

[@natedizzah5877]

I love how people keep stepping up to the plate... Stay strong brother

[@olli3686]

The ball hit the car immediately due to the air flow

[@SimonVaIe]

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

[@DoneWright22]

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

[@Maliceinponderland]

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

[@SimonVaIe]

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

[@bovice5072]

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

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

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

[@derrickofori330]

Finally

[@danpearson3692]

Hahaha

[@MrCharrrles]

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

[@mesmith2526]

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

[@gisnotalizard]

SAME

[@abizmal3142]

He looked so gangsta😂

[@AdamSmith-zd8ft]

Isn’t it just so nice when the hypothesis turns out to be totally correct?

[@johnpleckaitis2336]

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]

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

[@methatis3013]

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]

@@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]

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

[@MarcillaSmith]

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

[@vanheath5382]

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

[@williamcarter7655]

Saw that too….

[@MikaeruDaiTenshi]

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

[@aro2103]

You are not wrong

[@devingarrett5152]

Totally does

[@edover51315]

Very much. Which kind of invalidates half the video

[@SupremeDP]

"I wanna be the ball" - Jamie Hyneman

[@magnusandersen8898]

Oh yea, I remember him saying that in some Q&A or interview once. Would have been cool. I have faith it could have worked out with no accidents

[@draysoncrook4898]

Scrapman did something similar in trailmakers with the in game rockets

[@maloghurst2741]

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

[@garymathe9863]

Now that's science

[@ADDwithJTC]

Lmfao 😂😂😂

[@Ton12]

🎉

[@peterman8848]

I farted at the exact moment I read this comment

[@mo1st_codered114]

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

[@_TheIlluminator_]

Gangs taking notes

[@Vikanuck]

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]

For all the gangs doin drive bys on bullet trains lol

[@E.after.D.I.am.T.H]

The Yakuza😂​@@EpicGammingCrew

[@scootermom1791]

Lol

[@scootermom1791]

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

[@scummy73dude64]

The fact that you got that in the first take is mystery all on its own.

[@JEMA825]

Great physics experiment!!

[@sergiv5613]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@sergiv5613]

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

[@Regoriroger]

​@sergiv5613 there's also the holodeck.

[@yagiziskirik]

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]

I thought of the exact same episode

[@nasis18]

Miss that show.

[@bertjesklotepino]

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.

[@stevevernon1978]

but did they do it "ON THE FIRST TAKE!!!"

[@PTNLemay]

I giggled with joy at that, that's so good

[@azrobbins01]

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]

1/4 a second is a long time

[@azrobbins01]

​@@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]

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

[@yoniteclas]

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

[@Squiggly6942]

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

[@boyvol6428]

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

[@ybwhynot7292]

Which is SCIENCE. Not an opinion, prove it. 😂

[@Squiggly6942]

@@ybwhynot7292 sorry... What?

[@prestonb4295]

⁠@@Squiggly6942 she’s just saying how the essence of scientific testing and experiment satisfies our brains. That the action of experiment is an innate desire.

[@thinkharderyourealmosthere]

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

[@nuggernstuff439]

That was myth busters level, cool!

[@brendanberry7403]

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

[@thomasbudianto-qn5jh]

Care to share the result?🙏

[@smileyp4535]

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

[@Skyriiing]

@@thomasbudianto-qn5jh The results were the same.

[@thomasbudianto-qn5jh]

@@smileyp4535 thank you.👍

[@thomasbudianto-qn5jh]

@@Skyriiing thank you.👍

[@keneola]

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

[@mysticr3448]

You are answering the questions that I thought I was weird for thinking of. Thank you for this

[@BigDH28]

That was a hell of a one shot take! 🤯👍🤝✊🙏💯🎉

[@Mark_Williams.]

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)

[@greaselord8553]

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

[@Drekromancer]

The only catch: it only works on a stationary target.

[@llortaton2834]

This is an old mythbuster experiment

[@jbd1989]

buddy really picked an altima to do a drive by🤣 good work excellent choice of vehicle

[@_lonath_]

Now try that at 3000km/h with a gun

[@s.h7124]

It’s gonna be 3000k minus 55 mph.

[@iyeadsanbeats2917]

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

[@foximacentauri7891]

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

[@Bokkie100k]

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

[@ChrisPBacon1434]

This is how i would survive a falling elevator

[@thesnowman2509]

it wouldnt work lol

[@ChrisPBacon1434]

@@thesnowman2509 nuh uh

[@JohnPhillips-2024]

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

[@ChrisPBacon1434]

@@JohnPhillips-2024 my elevators have floors

[@JohnPhillips-2024]

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

[@TheMaggots]

At first I thought this guy was about to record a felony

[@achikavengergarohills3048]

Damn!...you boggle my mind!...I really did not know that....knowledge for today..thanks!👍👍👍

[@89RASMUS]

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

[@mehrdad4784]

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

[@MySquishable]

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]

No

[@kazuya99ace]

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

[@mrpresident8546]

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

[@Memes217.]

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

[@fowof]

This was actually a pretty cool experiment

[@jeffpowell7749]

WOW awesome I've often wondered about that same thing I'm glad there are people who have the guts to come up with an experiment to show it excellent

[@J_Games_1996]

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

[@pnwijayatilake8318]

Man's a natural gangsta

[@joythought]

Drive-by! It's a whole new meaning for drive-by shooting.

[@Cuwop2]

Ur not fooling me buddy ur a professional hitman with those trigger skills 💀💀💀💀

[@Yamyatos]

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

[@No-sj6fy]

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

[@Mjlovesupersoakers77]

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

[@jason3114]

​​​@@Mjlovesupersoakers77the effect is that it went slightly in the same direction as the (could also be because the car was going too fast) and ofc stayed in the air longer. Otherwise it would have either stopped dead in its tracks and fall straight down(ideal situation, both car and bullet move at the exact same speed and no wind, newton's first law(iirc)) or it would move slightly to the right(I.e. The car wasn't moving fast enough).

[@LoneWolf-kz5bo]

It didn’t touch. It just goes the air flow around the car

[@CarsonBoyd]

Technically... a. 45 caliber bullet travels at about 700 mph. But if his point is that you're probably going to be safe in a nerf gun shootout, he's right.

[@mo1st_codered114]

That shot was indeed impressive

[@toreworld5820]

Shit bounced off the car lmfao.

[@RCrosbyLyles]

Always the best contents! Seriously, the things that seem obvious now, but I always really wanted to try and never could.

[@bugsbunny8691]

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

[@Lily-cx1vo]

Relativity is fun.

[@timokimo8206]

Stop bringing einstein into everything 😅

[@ittaiklein8541]

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

[@chotatopips4177]

​This is relative motion in action though.

[@KnugLidi]

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

[@biggieyackboi]

@@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

[@_pdro]

Reminds me of hearing about failed aircraft missile tests where one wrong variable and the plane runs into the missile

[@FarmerGang_CEO]

The bird in the car question we all asked our fathers'....thank you

[@_Piers_]

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

[@KTSTHofficial]

finally getting into those trick shot shorts i always see 😂

[@moppman3191]

I love the action lab he always comes up with these kind of interesting things.

[@brandtcarroll9316]

That's good RNG 😂😂

[@mavendeo]

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

[@andycremeans]

Omg

[@dlberker]

That was awesome!

[@1makosyo1]

Yooo I been always thinking of this!?!?! Thank you!!! Awesome video!

[@jpk7812]

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

[@anshswaroop6849]

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

[@JKweez]

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

[@emmanuelokafor2598]

Can I just say I envy the guys who run this channel so much. I hope they really enjoy what they do as much as I enjoy watching them do it. This is living science, God! What I'd give!

[@Kakakakakakakakakakakaka684]

“That shit cray” - Newton

[@DordYT]

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

[@seanbrockest3888]

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]

ok Karen

[@seanbrockest3888]

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

[@SamMaddie2]

@@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]

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

[@SamMaddie2]

@@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.

[@generalconsumer9520]

Subbed, nice!! Love physics

[@daydrip]

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

[@technicianbis5250-ig1zd]

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]

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).

[@jeffbenton6183]

Yeah, it looked like it moved up a little after dropping because of the car.

[@fi4re]

Officer: do you know why I pulled you over?

[@planktonfun1]

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

[@karezaalonso7110]

I think you mean cancelled speed (vectors) not forces

[@notmewooshme9916]

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

[@karezaalonso7110]

@@notmewooshme9916 can you describe the force diagram?

[@DG_plusrandomnumbers]

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

[@jschanzenbach]

It was insane that you aced that on the very first try❤❤ Great job!! Love your videos.

[@Alex-vm6ef]

Epic, answering all these natural curiosities i had as a kid

[@joecruggle7638]

awesome experiment!

[@LordFalconsword]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@HyperShadow949494]

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]

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

[@kbullet7385]

That just puts all action movies to bed

[@johnathanbradley6908]

Your force is greater then the ball coming out the gun. The brickwall effect

[@nomoneylagaogaming5177]

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

[@calebhall812]

Yeah? That's not actually that impressive.

[@nomoneylagaogaming5177]

@@calebhall812 Ok boomer

[@calebhall812]

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

[@castleanthrax1833]

@nomeneylagaogaming5177. OK renter.

[@drew7155]

​@@calebhall812 bet you've never done it

[@sumitvishwakarma1075]

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]

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.

[@robertglogowski777]

I remember Mythbusters did this with a cannon once, happy to see this still works on a smaller scale as well haha

[@DangerDave911]

LOVE THIS!!

[@hagarhagar2695]

The ball actually made contact with the car first though.