T-Shirt Cannon

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Re: T-Shirt Cannon

Postby Tanner » December 23rd, 2009, 12:52 pm

Sunny wrote:Mr. Smith does have a point in that the linear speed of the wheels might not get high enough to launch the shirts, but I think it'll come with testing.


I'm sure we could do the physics on it. Just ignore the fact that the wheels are spinning and treat it as two surfaces just rubbing against one another, then calculate the output velocity. The rest should be easy after that.

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Re: T-Shirt Cannon

Postby ptwortman » December 23rd, 2009, 3:07 pm

Tanner wrote:I'm sure we could do the physics on it. Just ignore the fact that the wheels are spinning and treat it as two surfaces just rubbing against one another, then calculate the output velocity. The rest should be easy after that.

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