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Analysis Of The Key Components Of A Catapult
The key component that made a difference in my lauch, volume, surface area, and weight, was the different scale of the objects, and how we made the catapult. I say the scale and how we made the objects because if we would have made the objects differently, they would have traveled differently through the air. I also blame the scale of the objects because the bigger the object the harder it would be to make it go further. For instance the marshmallow was could barely get past the starting line, it was continuously going backwards or not moving at all, but when we started testing the starburst, the catapult was making it go all the way up to eight feet

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