Thursday, March 12, 2009
physics project, make a projectile launcher and launch a golf ball onto the target......
some not very complicated physics and a idea for the launcher, for now its a pressure and spring combine launcher, basically you pump air into the middle airtight section and release the spring powered pusher at the back. this if it works should be able to increase pressure rapidly and thus launching the ball, though with the current plans, i think lots of stuff can go wrong, thats why i hav plans for a pure spring powered and a pure pressure powered launcher.
by th way ur suspose to land ur ball 1m away with a 80cm wall in between, and since pressure is rather powerful, it migt not even be able to not miss the 1m mark(either that or the whole pressurized part explodes blasting pcs of PET, wood, styrofoam and perharps what remians of the golf ball everywhere, but hey there is a 1/360 chance that it goes the right direction, and i hav no idea wat is the probability of it hitting the target then.)