Engineering Challenge- Spring Loaded Kicker Edition

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Ether

Under no circumstances will increasing the kicker's mass (while holding all other parameters constant) result in higher velocity of the kicker at the end of the swing.


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Right, I looked at my wording again, and mis-spoke if you read it to say it would result in a higher velocity of the kicker. What I meant to say is increasing the mass will also increase the momentum of the kicker, but only to a point as it approach a certain value.

In my mind, higher momentum coming out of the kicker mean a higher velocity on the soccer, but it was getting late and I wasn't careful about my wording.

Oops. Getting too old for late nights I suppose.