It doesn’t line up with things mathematically, but any units of measurement when not doing a bunch of math is all simply frame of reference for whatever is easiest to understand. 30f is cold, 100f is hot, 70f feels nice.
So I know 200fps stings (gell blasters and airsoft) 500 fps will do more than sting, a thousand fps with a lead pellet will very much go into things, and because I happen to do bench shooting of pellet rifles for distance as a hobby, I know that the speed of sound is about 1,125 fps, and if you get close to or go over that, your accuracy of a pellet rifle takes a cliff dive. My preference for my long range shots is using an extra heavy pellet in a rifle that normally would shoot around 1400 fps. It drops about 400 fps by doing so and gives the pellet enough mass to travel more steady during like a 50 yard flight, which is a lot for a little .177 diameter pellet that weighs 11 grams.
Feet per second is one of the more cursed units of speed.
It doesn’t line up with things mathematically, but any units of measurement when not doing a bunch of math is all simply frame of reference for whatever is easiest to understand. 30f is cold, 100f is hot, 70f feels nice.
So I know 200fps stings (gell blasters and airsoft) 500 fps will do more than sting, a thousand fps with a lead pellet will very much go into things, and because I happen to do bench shooting of pellet rifles for distance as a hobby, I know that the speed of sound is about 1,125 fps, and if you get close to or go over that, your accuracy of a pellet rifle takes a cliff dive. My preference for my long range shots is using an extra heavy pellet in a rifle that normally would shoot around 1400 fps. It drops about 400 fps by doing so and gives the pellet enough mass to travel more steady during like a 50 yard flight, which is a lot for a little .177 diameter pellet that weighs 11 grams.