Favorite Tips About How To Build Ping Pong Catapult
One where they launch the ball.
How to build ping pong catapult. Students use a variety of materials to build a catapult to launch a ping pong. Make sure the hole in the catapult base is lined up with a hole in the disk. Use three of the skewers to make a triangle.
Thread two more skewers into two of the joints of your triangle, then bend them together and lash that. Lash the joints together with elastic bands. This video is an introduction to the ping pong catapult kit, available from our partner home science tools:
Insert the pin with the ring into the catapult base to set the launch angle. The leg of this t will become the catapult’s throwing arm, so make sure it can turn freely. As described in the short explanation at the beginning, the catapult effect is about how elastic a paddle is.