Show I The Moving Moving Train and the the Bullet CORRESPONDENT sends those these A two questions to the Scientific Am American rican 1 If a train were running at a speed of or sixty miles an hour and a man Is sitting on the back end of this train with a gun that would shoot at the rate of stay miles an hour and he shoots hoots from the back end of of this train in opposite direction what effect would this condition have on the bullet billet 2 If the man with the g gun ri w was was a on the front end of this tra train and was wan s to shoot back at a man on the back end of train and train to be going sixty miles per hour and the gun would shoot at tho the rate of or sixty miles an 1 hour what would be the result I To which the editor replies l I 1 In the tho case you propose the tho bu bullet bul let after it left the gun would sUn still move forward with the speed of the the train and backward with the speed given it by the powder Since these two speeds are equal and opposite in indirection indirection indirection direction the bullet would drop to the tha ground directly under the point where where- it H left the gun 2 In this case th the man at wh whom m the bullet was shot would be killed If the aim aba was good This may be made made clear lear perhaps by asking if you could not throw a ball on a train to a a. ni man manto than n nto to the rear of the the place where you you wera standing Could you not toss lossa tossa a biscuit to a person In the next seat In Ina In- In a car either toward the front or orear rear ear If you could toss toso a biscuit you ou could fire a bullet in either oither direction and anil with the usual result when a bullet is 13 isI I fired This matter seems very II to us We do o not know why it caus causes s so o much snuck discussion |