World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

BALLISTICS: THE PROJECTILE CHARACTERISTICS OF WEAPON IN FORENSIC SCIENCE

Dr. Sampa Dhabal, Kushal Nandi, *Dr. Dhrubo Jyoti Sen and Dr. Dhananjoy Saha

ABSTRACT

Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance. A ballistic body is a free-moving body with momentum which can be subject to forces such as the forces exerted by pressurized gases from a gun barrel or a propelling nozzle, normal force by rifling, and gravity and air drag during flight. A ballistic missile is a missile that is guided only during the relatively brief initial phase of powered flight and the trajectory is subsequently governed by the laws of classical mechanics; in contrast to (for example) a cruise missile which is aerodynamically guided in powered flight like a fixed-wing aircraft.

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