Trebuchet Projectile Optimisation
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Published 2018-07-27
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All Comments (21)
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Film at night, put LEDs in a ball of some sort so it glows or whatever. EZPZ
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You get cricket balls in 113g, 136g and 156g like you had... They make lighter easier grip ones for junior cricket. Definitely recommend you try one of them and they'll be easy to get hold of...
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The tennis ball wasn't dropping straight down at the end. Remember that your camera isn't directly overhead the ball for the hole trajectory, and that it's just at a point. Think of a triangle with the ball falling along one of the legs. Great video, I'm glad someone is out living life and having fun 😉
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I think you should remake your trebuchet to be... 3 times bigger?
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Being a maths nerd I love these videos! Just a quick point, just because a graph is curved, doesn't make it exponential. Keep up the great work!
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1:12 What a catch <3
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and thats how you do real science.. calculate some theory..trial and error.. gather the info.. tweak the components.. and try to figure it out mathematically later....well done
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Magnus effect. Try a release mecanism that uses a pivot and a screw to adjust easely on field. Turning the screw modifies the angle., and the system is quite robust. You might want to try a ball with dimpled texture on it, like golf bals... This will help it to travrl further... And you might be able to modify travel direction if you dimple it with different paterns (just a dimple band and non dimpled sides) Good luck!
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I love that you have both the curiosity and competence to follow your exploration of this wonderful machine. It's a fascinating journey!
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Nice way to science things up!! Really nice job with the testing and consistency doing so.
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I think this is my favorite of all your projects yet. I will never build one but your process of investigation is great and your results have been really surprising, like I would never have thought wheels would increase efficiency! This is better than anything on Netflix. You're a legend!
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The drone shots of launches are just so satisfying. Nice one!
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Love the video! Great graphs and analysis, very interesting to watch. Always love me a good trebuchet video
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Hey Tom, I am loving your work. Keep it up!
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Love your vidoes! That ending was great! Keep doing what you're doing! Your great at it!
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great work with the data analysis and optimisation. now you ahve the weight pinned down, now its time to optimise for release angle
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This is such a cool project. I love optimization
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That's awesome that you have that big field right there! Makes it more convenient for these kinds of experiments haha. Great video.
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This is a really cool series thanks for doing it!!
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great new advance. love these vids i always learn something new. cheers Tom!
