The Aviators

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Introduction
 Procedure
 Apparatus
 Results
 Appendices


 

  On the eighteenth day of February in the year 2009, a challenge was presented to The Aviators: Nobie Redmon, Morgan Lopez, Nolan Roberts, Kevin Faul. The Aviators were to create a  Matlab program that would calculate the variables needed to fire a projectile from a cannon, and hit a target. From this Matlab program, they would then create a program in Working Model to confirm trial results.

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This is a simplified representation of the set-up for the Challenge. Shown on the left is the air cannon apparatus. It will be propped up on blocks of differing heights (y1 and y2) and will fire a projectile at the target (circle at the top right).This setup is shown in more detail on the Apparatus page.

As mentioned, we used a Matlab program as well as a model made in Working Model to compute our "solution". And in the end, our programs worked in concordance, though we had very interesting Results. These files can be found in the Appendices section.