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Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:26 pm

are there any I could do with a spud gun?

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Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:42 pm

Wow that was an extremely vague question.

You could do distances with power and angles.

Most schools won't allow you to build one.
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Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:56 pm

I meant it to be vague, any interesting project fit for a freshmen. and people have done things with rifles before, so let me worry about the legalities.
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Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:58 pm

maby, areodynamics of the ammo?
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Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:24 pm

I am doing this for my grade 11 math project and it involves trajectory and force of impact with two types of ammo.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:18 pm

I think I'm gonna see what makes good tank armor.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:44 pm

where are you going to get tank armor and how are you going to get explosive charges?how will you build a shake charge without blowing yourself up?and how are you going to make explosive armor?(armor that when hit blows up or something and stops the charge from penatrating the tank.)
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:00 pm

LOL...
Maybe try to find a good golf cart armor.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:06 pm

I would not do something that stresses the destructive forces of potato cannons.

Last year, for my freshman project, I used my dual supah-valve+ cannon. Sure it has loads of power, and sure it impressed them. But I did not make that the focus of the project. From my experience, teachers are more likely to give a good grade to a well-thought out project (mine was about weighted VS unweighted tennis ball distances) than one that just shows them how far you can launch something.

I have also noticed teachers are less willing to give out good grades to "dangerous" students than they are to "creative" students

So in other words, don't show them something that can penetrate tank armor; show them something that involves a physics and math (AND can penetrate tank armor :wink: )
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:50 pm

ya of course, I'm not gonna show off the cannon, I'm just useing it to have the same force each time. it'll be about the benifits of armor deforming, flexing, hardened ect, not the cannon. the cannon will just make the project more enjoyable for me.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:49 pm

dude if you realy want the teachers to take you serously make a coilgun or railgun or co2 laser or something mare "advanced", im making a coilgun for the science fair this year (i have to do it because im in honors bio, wait i hate bio why did i take this class?)
be sure to check out my <a href="http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/ak-styl ... 9.html">AK Styled Vortex Gun</a> and my <a href="http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/at-4-t9627.html">AT-4 Rocket</a>

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Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:21 pm

pyromanic13 wrote:I meant it to be vague, any interesting project fit for a freshmen. and people have done things with rifles before, so let me worry about the legalities.
hmm freshman...freshman should be doing physical science right now. well that deals with atoms, phases of matter, ect. if you make a penu there is ALOT you could do. Combustions just too dangerous for a school kinda thing. (if you do choose a penu call it a T-shirt launcher not a cannon, like the kind at hockey games, that makes it seem safer lol..)
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Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:10 pm

it is a penu, for consistansy's (sp?) sake.
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Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:46 pm

Trajectorys, pneumatics, various ammo projects, armour, the posibilities are endless.
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Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:21 am

have weight and mass of the ammo!
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