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Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours
We just explored how medieval engineers managed to hurl stones the size of body-positivity activists at people, causing them some mild inconvenience.
We just explored how medieval engineers managed to hurl stones the size of body-positivity activists at people, causing them some mild inconvenience. However, as any good story would do, we will ignore these anonymous henchmen, who do all the work and focus on the main hero - potential energy. We are no longer launching parallel to the ground so that means that our initial speed ( v₀) will have an horizontal component ( vₓ) and a vertical one ( vᵧ).
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