{"id":1943,"date":"2023-12-17T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2023-12-28T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T21:56:26","slug":"muzzle-velocity-is-normally-distributed-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2023\/12\/muzzle-velocity-is-normally-distributed-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Muzzle Velocity is Normally Distributed (+Infographic!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m putting together a book with a lot of statistics applied to ballistics and trying to fill it with helpful examples since the pure math is hard to absorb.  Below is one infographic I just finished.  It&#8217;s an analysis of the muzzle velocity I measured shooting a full box of subsonic .22LR.  The left column is all 50 measurements, which I then sort into a histogram to illustrate how muzzle velocity is normally distributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"954\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"1947\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2023\/12\/muzzle-velocity-is-normally-distributed-infographic\/muzzlevelocityisnormallydistributed-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1968,2112\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-280x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-954x1024.png\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-954x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-954x1024.png 954w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-140x150.png 140w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-768x824.png 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-1431x1536.png 1431w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-1908x2048.png 1908w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1-624x670.png 624w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MuzzleVelocityIsNormallyDistributed-1.png 1968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting together a book with a lot of statistics applied to ballistics and trying to fill it with helpful examples since the pure math is hard to absorb. 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