Yet Another Revisitation of Reproducing Ordnance Pamphlet 770 by James Pate Williams, Jr.

This is another attempt to reproduce the United States Navy’s Ordnance Pamphlet 770: https://eugeneleeslover.com/USN-GUNS-AND-RANGE-TABLES/OP-770-1.html which contains ballistic tables for the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) artillery (16-inch/50 caliber) and is dated October 1941. My C# Windows desktop application is capable of calculating the elevation from range table which has the columns range in yards, angle of elevation in degrees and minutes, positive angle of fall in degrees and minutes, time of flight in seconds, apogee also called summit in feet, striking velocity in feet per second, and energy in foot pound force. Three corrections can be applied to the trajectory: trunnion height in feet, acceleration of gravity correction, and the curvature of the Earth correction (Vincenty calculation). The first image below is the ballistic settings interface. The second image is the uncorrected table. The third image is the application of a trunnion height of 32 feet. The fourth image is the curvature of the Earth correction. The fifth image is the trunnion height of 32 feet and Vincenty corrections. It is to be noticed that the striking velocity and kinetic energy are the only non-monotonically increasing or decreasing data fields.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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