: Calculating the peak pressure within the chamber and how it drops as the projectile travels down the bore.
: The chemistry of gunpowder, burn rates, and how chemical energy converts to kinetic energy. Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammun...
: The role of rifling (spin-stabilization) versus fins (fin-stabilization) to prevent the projectile from tumbling. : Calculating the peak pressure within the chamber
: How different materials (steel, concrete, ballistic gelatin) react to impact. Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammun...
: How wind, gravity, and even the Coriolis effect (Earth's rotation) influence the strike point. 4. Terminal Ballistics
The final stage analyzes the interaction between the projectile and its target.