The earliest known ballistic projectiles were stones and spears, and the throwing stick.
The oldest evidence of stone-tipped projectiles, which may or may not have been propelled by a bow

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A projectile is any object projected into space (empty or not) by the exertion of a force. Although any object in motion through space (for example a thrown baseball) is a projectile, the term most commonly refers to a ranged weapon. Mathematical

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Throwing
Throwing is the launching of a projectile by hand. Although some other animals can throw, humans are unusually good throwers due to their high dexterity and good timing capabilities, and it is believed that this is an evolved

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Ballistics is often broken down into the following four categories:
• Internal ballistics the study of the processes originally

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• Armour
• Ballistic conduction (related to electron transport)
• Ballistic limit
• Ballistic trauma
• Bloodstain pattern analysis

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1. ^ "Archytas of Tar entum." Archived December 26, 2008, at the Wayback MachineTechnology Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia,

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Forensic ballistics
Forensic ballistics involves analysis of bullets and bullet impacts to determine information of use to a

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