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Re: Catapult math

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post

Has anyone here on CD actually done a test to determine the terminal velocity of this year's game piece?

e.g. Drop the ball in still air from a sufficient height and videorecord it.

This would allow determination of the drag vs speed function.

(At least for the given air temperature and pressure).


We didn't. We just made a guesstimate on reasonable values for our initial calculations, and used those as a starting point for our prototyping. Once we got into prototyping, experiment ruled over theory.
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