Tuesday, 5 October 2010

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(B) My name is: Physics, Brage Andreas Karlsen Physics Husain Bond
(S) My name is: Scott
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(S) So, Brage Andreas Karlsen Physics Husain Bond (looking on a paper to remember the name). Do you know how a human being shot out of the canon?

(B) Normally people being shot out by a spring or jet of compressed air. But before you do this you need to calculate where they’re going to land and to find the landing place you need to know, acceleration, speed in the air, wind or other kind of force in the air, you need to calculate the weight of the person and. When you know all these different forces, you can calculate the landing place. But as you may know when someone doing the cannonball trick they use to add gun powder and sound to make it look like you being shot out like a cannonball.
Could you explain something more about the forces in the air Scott?

(S) During the flight of a human cannonball, you need to take into consideration certain factors, these consist of gravitational pull, the wind direction and the speed, the air resistance of the flight, the terminal velocity of the person for instance how streamline his/her position is,
PICTURE!
How can be person land safe? Isn’t that dangerous?

(B) Yeah, but some people are really stupid. The landing is not really dangerous if you land on the landing place! And the landing place is normally a pool or some kind of a safe pad, these landing pads increase the time for the object ( or human cannonball) to come to a complete halt, by increasing the distance they reduce the forces that act on the person. BUT! This is not just a stunt, it is more than a stunt… it is a jackass! Ok, Scott. The records in side this “hobby” ?
(S) Yeah, I have the records. It is 56.64 meters. No I just joking, David "Cannonball" Smith has the record. He took the record on May 29, 1998. He was traveling around 110 km/h.

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