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A Trebuchet named Omega

A Trebuchet named Omega . By Elise Lunsford Brittany Mathias Allison Atha. Once upon a time there was a boy named J-Rod While he was eating his morning sandwich he came upon an idea.

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A Trebuchet named Omega

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  1. A Trebuchet named Omega By Elise Lunsford Brittany Mathias Allison Atha

  2. Once upon a time there was a boy named J-Rod While he was eating his morning sandwich he came upon an idea.

  3. He thought to himself, “ What if my friends and I were to build a launching contraption.” Thus, hatched a group project that would end in an immense amount of colors.

  4. J-Rod gathered his friends to begin planning how this trebuchet was to be built. The trebuchet took two hours of planning and debating.

  5. Here is Brittany Mathias figuring the dimensions that our awesome group would need to succeed In the day of Physics Trebuchet Launching.

  6. Off to Lowe’s Hardware store the group sent two awesome representatives to collect our supplies that we would need.

  7. However, while searching for supplies, Elise and Chris W. stumbled upon a few dilemmas. We had trouble finding a dowel bar that was thick enough. This dowel bar was shown not to work by Mr. T’s super human strength.

  8. After collecting our supplies the entire group spend many hard hours constructing our Trebuchet.

  9. First, the group constructed a sturdy base.

  10. Secondly the group constructed the central support beams.

  11. The girls, Elise, Brittany, and Allison were responsible for measuring the pieces. Respectively, the guys, Chris, Chris, and J-Rod assembled the pieces.

  12. The swing arm was constructed and attached to our lovely trebuchet.

  13. The girls decided they wanted our trebuchet to be the most beautifulest trebuchet in all the land. Also our painting of the trebuchet inspired the other trebuchet workers to decorate their own trebuchets.

  14. J-Rod here is over seeing construction.

  15. After the girls made the group’s trebuchet look absolutely spectacular, Chris made more preparations for attaching our counterweight.

  16. Here is Elise cutting out the pattern for our projectile sling.

  17. Here we are setting up our trebuchet on Harmon Field. By the way, we temporarily misplaced our counterweight dowel rod, so we had to use the “bent over the knee, by Mr. T”.

  18. Here, half of our group is launching the trebuchet, while the other half is collecting our range data.

  19. Our independent variable was the change of the release angle made by the nail. Position A was at 125 degrees. Position B was at 30 degrees. • As our graphs show, Omega had a very inconsistent range.

  20. After collecting our data, Mr. T initiated a series of thoughtfully designed contests. One of which, as shown here, was the consistency contest.

  21. The last contest we took part in was the battlefield contest.

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