{"id":2595,"date":"2012-06-06T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/high-flying-fruit-flinging\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:04:18","slug":"high-flying-fruit-flinging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/high-flying-fruit-flinging\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Flying Fruit Flinging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2596\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/winners-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2596\" title=\"winners-w\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/winners-w-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/winners-w-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/winners-w.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Prof. J.C. Sanders and the two winners of the design competition, Laura and Rachel Bennett. Photo from the USAO article.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma (USAO) published an article on my future-brother-in-law&#8217;s successful efforts to engage students directly physics by having them design, construct, and fire home-built catapults.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly fond of the winning design (discussed in the article), for its extremely clever use of both weight(s) and leverage.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"oembed link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usao.edu\/news\/news\/students-get-%E2%80%98fling%E2%80%99-things-catapult-competition\" rel=\"oembed\">Students get into &#8216;fling&#8217; of things with catapult competition | The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma<\/a> on Usao<br style=\"clear: left;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking like a cross between a weight bench and a guillotine, even the device\u2019s designers, sisters Rachel and Laura Bennett of Oklahoma City, were a little uncertain about what might happen next&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma (USAO) published an article on my future-brother-in-law&#8217;s successful efforts to engage students directly physics by having them design, construct, and fire home-built catapults. 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