Physics problem

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

But let's say you're throwing marbles. If you only throw 1 marvel with all your strength, it goes so far you can't even see where it lands.
But if you throw a BAG OF marbles (let's say 100 of them) with all your strength, you won't be able to throw it farther than 10 meter.

That's actually a good example of where your thinking is going wrong. You keep bringing up other factors into it. We're just talking about sheer strength. Sheer force behind the arrows.

A big bag of marbles has a lot of surface area to catch air resistance, which slows it down. Where as, if you threw 5 marbles, they would go similar distances because they're all getting the same amount of air resistance (virtually nothing). The only change would be where the marble left your hand (since a hand isn't exactly even) and what trajectory you sent the individual marbles.

Kitana, you're talking about the difficulty of balancing arrows. We're not calculating that. We're calculating the effects of 3 arrows being shot if they were perfectly balanced, like jeepnut's slave said.