Thread: Lessons learned for Week 2 Regionals?
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Re: Lessons learned for Week 2 Regionals?
At FLR on practice day the tower finish lights would trigger if you hit the tower hard enough with your robot. They basically all but disabled the tower lights for all poles at FLR.

BTW, our small but light minibot definitely crushes the top plate. Impulse - momentum (or work energy theory, too) shows that it is momentum, not simply mass, that dictates the contact energy. Believe me, if a minibot that is going up in less than 1.5 seconds it will hurt you if it contacted you. 4 (or whatever the small number is) Newtons of force does not hurt you. The claim about small, light minibots in the earlier post is based on no physics that I use.

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