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but I still can't get the numbers to work?
check the link below, re rifle bullet trajectories (a favorite subject)?
Jeff
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how about "acceleration due to gravity, or about 980 cm/s2" . . . so the more seconds that the object is falling, then the greater the acceleration due to the force of gravity . . . could this explain the "geometric" progression of the numbers on this scale? the greater the period of time during which the object is falling, the greater the acceleration due to gravity?
: Jeff,
: That does NOT say CWS, it says CM/S As in
: CentiMetre's Per Pecond... Unfortunately it
: appears to be going in the wrong direction
: to be some sort of CentiMeter per Second
: Tachy or Tele.
: I think the chances of this being an authentic
: Heuer is next to nill (gut feeling). The
: "optimist/pessimist" (depening
: upon your feelings about this design) will
: say that maybe there is a 5% chance Heuer
: made something like this. But if they did,
: why doesn't it, or something with this case,
: or bezel, or dial, show up in any catalog we
: have or have ever seen?
: Seems odd for a "real" model doesn't
: it?
: Chuck
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