Show QUEER gravitation FACTS in hardly A any ny two places will dody body fall with same speed bearing on rifle shooting A man falling from a three story building ding in new orleans will not f tall as a fast as he would it if he be were in ill new york city in fact in hardly any two places will he fall with the same speed this Is because as we go toward the equator the force of gravitation gets less and c consequently 0 the acceleration cele ration of a falling body becomes less force of impact Is there therefore buile while loss it does not make very much aln rt the injury to a falling faelli fall li ax ru 74 height it does anaka a diff difference arence lipsher lip ther things take a rifle and fire it horizontally and tf it the gun Is 10 feet above the ground say bay at new tho the bullet fired from such a rifle wl will 1 strike the ground in exactly one secand after iti leaves the rifle it if the bullat bullatt has as a hoitz horizontal velocity of a thousand beeta teet n second tt it will strike the earth exactly 1000 feet away let us tako Athe same rifle to a place where the for corfee e oi 0 gravity t ts 13 s n not ot tho the same as at ne new 0 Y york tk b but u t a goob soo deal smaller say z y h ir d 4 smaller we find that if the vin n Is placed as before and absolutely hori horizontal al the bullet will not fall the 16 feet in one second but will take over one and a half seconds to fall thus enabling the bullet to be in the air during that length ot of time therefore it will strike c the ground 1600 feet away thus it Is seen thattie that the range 0 of t a t flolo 1 0 I 1 Is 8 increased as aa it is taken to toward the equator t of courso course there la is no pi place ce on earth where the force of grav gravity ty t is two thirds smaller than at N naw w york but there are many places chere here the difference Is consider considerable ible enough goligh to affect slightly the ran range of A f rifles har aers weekly gt I 1 |