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Thrust structures

My lab today was thrust structers it was very fun. What we did was build a stand that a water bottle would be put on top of. It had to be at least 5 cm high and it would have to withstand 3 launches were it flew in the air and fell. Also you were supposed to make it as light as possible. Then after you I made one that worked I had to make a lighter one using the first one as an example as what I should do.

I learned that the harder you drop something the more powerful it is because with the sand bag you had to sort of drop it hard and high so the bottle could go higher. I also learned that triangles work as good as squares when building something and that they are lighter. So not neccisarily everthing has to be built in a square shape.

I want to know will we be building launchers that have to meet certain requirements such as weighing a certain amount?