U.07 Kinetic & Potential Energy

Day 13 - Refine Your Design

Before exams last month you should have collected some good performance data on your trebuchet, including 1 modification. Today you should plan out a more significant change you could make to your trebuchet with an eye to further improvements of the trebuchet's function (e.g., throw distance, throw accuracy, or throw consistency), then spend the bell implementing that change. You should rely on your video analysis to show you specific points of failure in the trebuchet performance.

kinetic energy
energy of motion
potential energy
gravitational potential energy is the energy represented by mass due to its height above a surface under force of gravity