ballistics

Examples of ballistics in the following topics:

• Applications of the Parabola

  • The parabola has many important applications, from the design of automobile headlight reflectors to calculating the paths of ballistic missiles.
  • At higher speeds, such as in ballistics, the shape can be highly distorted.

• Other Geophysical Applications

  • The Coriolis effects also became important in ballistics calculations -- for example, calculating the trajectories of very long-range artillery shells.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Then in August of 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles that would have the ability to strike most of the continental United States.
  • This action followed the United States' 1958 deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Italy and Turkey in 1961, which meant that more than 100 U.S.

• Technological Advancement

  • The Space Race can trace its origins to Germany, beginning in the 1930s and continuing during World War II when Nazi Germany researched and built operational ballistic missiles.
  • From here, von Braun and his team developed the Army's first operational medium-range ballistic missile, the Redstone rocket, that in slightly modified versions, launched both America's first satellite, and the first piloted Mercury space missions.

• Détente and Human Rights

  • In the same year that SALT I was signed, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty were also concluded.

• The Cold War's Costs and Consequences

  • On the other hand, despite termination of the Cold War, military development and spending has continued, particularly in the deployment of nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and defensive systems.

• Microwaves

  • These devices operate on different principles from low-frequency vacuum tubes, using the ballistic motion of electrons in a vacuum under the influence of controlling electric or magnetic fields, and include the magnetron (used in microwave ovens), klystron, traveling-wave tube (TWT), and gyrotron.

• The Defense Buildup and the "Evil Empire"

  • In March of 1983, Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a defense project that would use ground- and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

• The Nuclear Arms Race

  • The most important development in terms of delivery in the 1950s was the introduction of intercontinental ballistic missiles, ICBMs.

• Nixon in China

  • Out of the summit came agreements for increased trade and two landmark arms control treaties: SALT I, the first comprehensive limitation pact signed by the two superpowers, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles.