This is illustrated in the movie The Right Stuff with a running joke based on an apocryphally question posed to Gordon Cooper, the last Mercury astronaut. Cooper played by Dennis Quaid, was asked, “Who’s the best pilot you’ve ever saw?” In a moment of unguarded subconscious truthful...
- Wiki: Expansion ratio; common Adiabatic flame temperature; Table of explosive detonation velocities (near speed of sound in solid); Tom Scott: Why Real Explosions Don't Look Like Movie Explosions - External While the trajectory is parabolic when there is no air resistance, the actual trajec...