[问答题]
It was reported in World War I that a pilot flying at an altitude of 2 km caught in his bare hands a bullet fired at the plane! Using the fact that a bullet slows down considerably due to air resistance, explain how this incident occurred.
参考答案:
Assume that the bullet was fired from behind and below the airplane. As the bullet rose in the air, its vertical speed would be slowed by both gravity and air resistance, and its horizontal speed would be slowed by air resistance. If the altitude of the airplane was slightly below the maximum height of the bullet, then at the altitude of the airplane, the bullet would be moving quite slowly in the vertical direction. If the bullet’s horizontal speed had also slowed enough to approximately match the speed of the airplane, then the bullet’s velocity relative to the airplane would be small. With the bullet moving slowly, it could safely be caught by hand.
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