Atmosphere changes for high-angle shots

dbookstaber / py_ballistics

Point-mass ballistic trajectory calculator with support for custom drag models

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Atmosphere changes for high-angle shots #8

Open dbookstaber opened 11 months ago

dbookstaber commented 11 months ago

When shooting at high angles the bullet will travel through atmosphere with varying density. We can use standard models of how density changes with elevation to incorporate this variable into each step of the trajectory calculation.

dbookstaber commented 9 months ago

Actually this might already be implemented via the atmo.get_density_factor_and_mach_for_altitude() line in _trajectory().

dbookstaber commented 9 months ago

Yep, it is implemented that way. But we still need to validate this. (#9 is related/relevant.)

Possible tests:

Lag-time at given time t should be smaller on high-angle shot than flat-fire trajectory.
Velocity at the same time t should be higher for a high-angle shot than flat trajectory.

dbookstaber commented 8 months ago

We did confirm it while working on https://github.com/dbookstaber/py_ballistics/issues/11#issuecomment-1947499649

gambon2010 commented 3 months ago

It could also be interesting to estimate wind speeds when shooting at high angles, in theory the higher the bullet goes, the higher the wind speed will be. For example by using the 'Wind profile power law', but I'm not sure how this could be implemented.