Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone know of a good Linux alternative to Chairgun (http://www.chairgun.com/), which is used with air riffles?

should be pretty easy to reproduce the math in something like Gnu Octave.

y = y0 + x * tan(theta) - g*x^2/(2*(v*cos(theta))^2)

gives height Y at distance X for initial velocity v and firing angle theta. etc etc. there are heuristics for approximating air friction (ignored in the above equation), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_coefficient and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajectory_of_a_projectile#Trajectory_of_a_proj...

for more detailed math...