Disc Lauching Velocity

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Originally Posted by AnimeOtakuStar

We're looking to find the exiting velocity of a disc from a launcher. Please provide the basis for your calculation. Thanks~!

From MOE 365

I am going to choose to answer a different question. When working on target velocities, we timed how long it took to throw the discs various distances effectively. At what speeds did the discs have ample drop (loosing altitude) and at what threshold dip the trajector appear relatively flat. We chose to do this over a 50' distance as this would be the theoretical super shot, just to see what sort of velocities were required.

This does not give you the "muzzle" velocity, but it does give you the average velocity, and you know you should probably target faster than that at the muzzle.

If you simultaneously take times at teh 25' mark, then you will have the average velocity for that distance as well, and you can use the 3 points to see the trend for speed (total time give total average velocty, timing at 25' mark allows for 25' average as well as the 25-50 foot average by subtracting the two.