Trebuchet Physics

by Tyler McNew

I interviewed Mr Arthur and he seemed Happy to tell me all about his trebuchet Experiences over the years.I asked Mr Arthur What made him want to start doing the trebuchet Project with students and His response was “An opportunity to put physics into action and learn physics Hands on by doing it.” I asked him what as his favorite one over the years and he said probably the first year because they didn’t know what they was doing and did not want to make it too big and the whole class made one together that had a 200 counter weight and when they tried to fire it the whole collapsed and another teacher almost got seriously hurt.Mr Arthur also said that

He’s been doing the trebuchet project for about 10 years and most students do enjoy it and it takes about a week of class time.I did the Trebuchet Project In Mr Arthur’s class and I can say it’s really fun to experience there were two different groups in my class and it took a few days to build them.We launched tennis balls out of them because we built miniature trebuchets and it was a load of fun.