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Introductory Concepts
The subject of ballistics has been studied for centuries by people at every level of aca-
demic achievement. Some of the world’s greatest mathematicians and physicists such as
Newton, Lagrange, Bernoulli, and others solved problems in mathematics and mechanics
that either directly or indirectly were applied to the various ballistic disciplines. At the
other end of the academic scale, there are individuals such as James Paris Lee (inventor
of the Lee-Eneld rie) who developed his rst weapon (not the famous Lee-Eneld) at
age12 with no formal education.
The dominant characteristic of any of the ballistic disciplines is ...