How successfully do you expect your machine to work in Friday's lesson?
I would like to think that our machine will fire a projectile 20 meters without self destructing.
How would you...
- How successfully do you expect your machine to work in Friday's lesson?
I expect our machine to fire well, but i think after testing a few shots and tweaking the trebuchet abit it will fire...
When our catapult is fired tomorrow, I think that it may be not as impressive as our very successful prototype catapult. I think this because the arm doesn’t have the lightning speed that the...
-How successfully do you expect your machine to work in Friday's lesson?
At the start of the project our group was not progressing as fast as we had hoped but our group believes that it will...
Question 1
i expect our trebuchet to work well on friday, however we do need to tie the rope braces onto it to keep the swing arm in place and fill our weights with water for it to fire,...
For Fridays lesson, I believe that our catapult will not as far as what was expected. This is due to a few things. Firstly, I believe that it would be pretty hard for us to pull back the arm with...
I think that the machine will work really well in Friday's lesson. However, I honestly don't think that it will fire as far as Little Boy, and while it may reach the same distance, it probably...
I am not sure how well our machine will go on Friday but I think that it may work worse than the group expected.
- How...
For Friday, I expect that my machine will be able to fire our projectile at a satisfactory range and have a high amount of force behind it. Our current design is simple but not too simple,...
I expect that on Fridays lesson, our machine will have a few issues, I think that the power of the arm will allow the ball to travel a long distance but the angle of the 'ball holder' will stop the...
I'm not quite sure, I think it will work quite well but a bit worried about the penetration ability of the bolts we...
- How successfully do you expect your machine to work on Friday's lesson?
I feel it will work very well but may not go far.
- How would you approach the task differently if you were able...
One of the many sieges where the Romans used the Ballista was the Siege of Aracillum in 25BC. The siege was fought during the Cantabrian Wars between the Romans and Cantabri. The Roman Generals in...
The Ballista was an ancient missile launcher designed to hurl javelins or heavy balls. Ballistae were powered by torsion derived from two thick skeins of twisted cords through which were...
Blog Post 3:
The Siege of Dover Castle
Year: 1216 AD
Location: Dover on the English coast
Opposing forces:
Attackers:
The attacking forces consisted of English and French rebels with the express...
Siege of Yodfat
The opposing sides and armies were the Romans and the Galiliean Jews. The Romans were commanded by Titus Flavius Vespasianus and the Jews were commanded by Yosef Ben...
Siege of Baghdad
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the trebuchet was a priceless item that was used frequently in the 4th century. It was on the same level as the catapult and they both were used for hurling small to large rocks to smash castles...
The trebuchet is a siege engine that uses a large swimming arm to fire a projectile at a target or enemy. The trebuchet is an ancient war weapon that dates back to 300bc but it was extensively used...
Blog Post 3
The battle of Xiangyang was a key battle between the invading Yuan Dynasty armies fought by the Mongols and the Southern Song forces between 1267 AD and 1273 AD. It was one...