Engineering Challenge- Spring Loaded Kicker Edition

[Mike Schreiber]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

You're making an important assumption about the design of the kicker here, which may not be true. If the kicker is set up like a big pendulum, with significant mass and significant travel time before contacting the ball, then I think you're correct.

I was making the assumption that this problem was based off of the Killer Bee's robot which does have a distance between the kicker and the ball in which the mass accelerates.