The
catapult dimensions can be no larger than 60 centimeters across, 60 centimeters
long, and 60 centimeters tall.
instructions
The
catapult dimensions can be no larger than 60 centimeters across, 60 centimeters long, and 60 centimeters tall. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 57 years. meep
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Get a framing square
http://img3.etsystat...58052867_c11k.jpg
Clamp the short side into a weighted base, attach a cup/sling to the tip of the long end. Pull it back and cut it loose. I'll bet you get 30 feet easy. Only question is will it stay bent or snap back. I'm betting on "snap back". --
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Sounds like a Science Olympiad project.
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ideas?
- (boxley)
- (12)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 12:36:27 AM EST
Keep it simple.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 01:01:27 AM EST
I was going to suggest trebuchet myself
- (mhuber)
- (1)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 10:32:54 AM EST
That's what I would suggest, too.
- (static)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 06:45:05 PM EST
Spring steel
- (drook)
- (6)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 02:06:42 AM EST
instructions
- (boxley)
- (2)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 12:46:26 PM EST
Get a framing square
- (drook)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 01:32:11 PM EST
Sounds like a Science Olympiad project.
- (Another Scott)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 01:45:37 PM EST
Impulse == Force x Time
- (Ashton)
- (2)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 06:14:14 PM EST
Trebuchet wins again
- (mhuber)
- (1)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 09:04:35 PM EST
Maybe so.. clever lads, those ancient warmongers
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Nov. 20, 2012, 05:07:19 AM EST
What is DIMS?
- (crazy)
- (1)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 08:53:28 AM EST
Dimensions
-NT
- (drook)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 09:51:54 AM EST
