I'm sorry to say your trig and calculus mean little in ballistics

What should I focus on then?

I guess I probably ought to read up on ballistics a little more

That's something you need to ask a professional in those fields, I'd say it's more based in lab work so more science based

Csi schools

Basically for forensic physics

Fair enough. When I did some basic research it said physics was really important. It also said chemistry is big which makes sense to me. It didn't really specify which types of math matter most though. The sad thing is that there isn't a degree in forensic ballistics as far as I can tell.

Geometry more than anything

That makes sense.

Something could be used in just about any field

I put it to use during Marksman training

What did you use it for during training?

Shot placement, range Zeroing, other uses like trap shooting or ambush ranging

High angle shooting

Hmm. What geometric concepts were used regularly?

Pythagorean theorem?

While I'm not trained as sniper alot of basic are used in SDM.

So its DFA ( distant, flight time and affects) so for example your target is 500 M out so you raise your gun to match, it will take 1 second to reach them so you move your gun to allow for the targets movement & & you are being affected by when, obstructions and the time frame so you've moved the gun to fight the win, place the shot to the instructions and the time the shot before you miss

Short answer yes to the pythagorean theorem

MoA

Minute of Angle

Just to make sure I understand, you would use geometry to place the shot based on the distance from the target, the targets movements, and the obstructions?

Ok. That makes sense. At first I saw some uses, but I wasn't sure how important it really would be. I always forget that angles and other such things are a part of geometry as well.

Yeah thanks for that... I kind of had to bang my head abit to remember how to explain this lol

Happy to help btw

Funny you ask me all these questions about math oh, but I had my younger cousins and nephews learning how to use a 50 at long range just not a few days ago all I was doing is just calculating it for them

yeah, i wasn't sure if I was being... pushy, for lack of a better word (at the moment). I really am grateful for all the help.

Nah not pushy

Haha, you know you're doing fine when you can just do the calculations.

That quest for knowledge <:thinking:726878987837636698>

For sure.

I've been wanting to go shoot at range, but there aren't really any places here in the middle of Mormonville USA (Utah)

Always been my ethos to learn at least one new thing a day

Solid

Sometimes hard to do with the availability of Google

Sometimes I think to myself one of these days I'll hear Soldier ask Google where's my enemy

Skynet for the win

Honestly I am not sure i'd be surprised if that did happen.

Google would probably pull up a bunch of articles about the 2020 election cycle.

More than likely

Bump stocks make semi automatic weapons pretty much automatic, should they be illegal?

Just left skeet shooting practice. I sucked I hit 39/50.