Will a bullet going at terminal velocity kill some one?

Question

will a bullet going at terminal velocity kill some one. i need proof of the findings, please

Answer 1

It would depend on the weight of the bullet and where the bullet hits the person. You'd have to know the pressure exerted when the bullet collides with the particular portion of the body and the force required to penetrate said body part. After determining how far this vague bullet will travel into the part of the body, you'd have to access how much damage to vital organs would be dealt. You'd need to be more specific in your question.

Answer 2

If you are talking about a bullet in free fall in Earth's gravity it will not kill a person on the ground. A recent episode of Myth Busters proved this. 9 mm bullets were fired straight up and the team located where several of the slugs hit the ground, each hit the ground side on, the team concluded there was not enough force to injure a human being.  

Answer 3

For bullets having the same shape and density, mass is proportional to the cube of diameter, terminal velocity is proportional to the square of the diameter, momentum is proportional to the 5th power of diameter, and energy is proportional to 7th power of diameter.

At terminal velocity, a .44 caliber bullet will impact 128 times more energetically than a .22. A .22" diameter lead sphere has a terminal velocity of about 30 feet/sec (20.5 mph); it might raise a small bump on your unprotected bald head. A .44" diameter lead sphere has a terminal velocity of about 120 feet/sec (82 mph); it will probably kill you. Bullets are longer than their diameter, so they fall faster than spheres of the same diameter.  

Answer 4

They tested this on Mythbusters, and a bullet falling straight down at terminal velocity will not kill someone.

However, people have been killed by bullets that were fired up in the air at an angle.  This is because they keep a lot of their horizontal velocity and their spin, so they come back down going a lot faster, and with the pointy end in front.

Answer 5

A bullet moving at Terminal Velocity will have zero acceleration but a very high velocity. It will surely kill someone. However for the proof, you need a volunteer. Shoot him in the head with a gun from a sufficient distance so as to attain terminal velocity and check whether he died or not.