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CRA Launch We having been learning more and more about the angles, energy, and more for when we are building our catapult and how it would launch. We would need the angles that we will launch from and the energy we have for the catapult. Also the kind of energy we will be using to launch the catapult is kinetic energy. The angles we have for the launch are 25° and 32°. So based on our background knowledge, the question for this would be, which angle will the object travel fastest? For the hypothesis it would be : If the angle is 32°, then it will make the object move through the air because 32° is a higher launch than 25°. So for this we would have the materials pencil, paper the angles, and the catapult. The materials for the catapult would be 2 soda cans, a fork, a couple of rubber bands, and a cap. …show more content…
After the catapult is built, we will have to use a Protractor for when we pull the fork back to match up with both angles. Then, after we pull it back we let go and see how far each object went for each angle. After we launch the launch angles for 32° are; 3.1ft, 7 ft, 7.3ft, 8.6ft, 9 ft, 9.2ft, 10 ft, 12.7ft, 13.1ft, and 14.5ft. For 25°, the launch angles are ; 2.1ft , 4.3ft, 5 ft, 6ft, 7ft, 8ft, 8.3ft, 8.11ft, 10.11ft, and 22.4ft. Then you when you turn them into inches and after that when you add they together you would get 1129 for 32° and 993 for

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