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Analytic and Computational Ballistics
Chapter 2 has provided us with the necessary background to discuss procedures that cal-
culate the behavior of projectiles and propellant in the gun tube. The chapter had to be
brief because detailed treatment of any one of the subjects could be (and are) collected into
complete texts in their own right. The reader is directed to the references at the end of the
chapter if a more complete background in the individual subject is felt to be necessary.
Much like other introductory texts on difcult subjects, this chapter shall begin with
fundamental treatments that will allow the reader to perform meaningf ...