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A war-wolf, or trebuchet, is a device used during the Middle Ages to throw rocks at castles and now sometimes used to fling pumpkins and pianos. A simple trebuchet is shown in the figure below.
Model it as a stiff rod of negligible mass 3.0 m long and joining particles of mass 57.5 kg and 0.120 kg at its ends. It can turn on a frictionless horizontal axle perpendicular to the rod and 16.5 cm from the particle of larger mass. The rod is released from rest in a horizontal orientation. Find the maximum speed that the object of smaller mass attains.
A war-wolf, or trebuchet, is a device used during the Middle Ages to throw rocks at castles and now sometimes used to fling pumpkins and pianos. A simple trebuchet is shown in the figure below.
Model it as a stiff rod of negligible mass 3.0 m long and joining particles of mass 57.5 kg and 0.120 kg at its ends. It can turn on a frictionless horizontal axle perpendicular to the rod and 16.5 cm from the particle of larger mass. The rod is released from rest in a horizontal orientation. Find the maximum speed that the object of smaller mass attains.