Cannons

n.p. "Cannon." Internet Gif file. Gifs.net. n.d. January 14th 2011

A cannon is a piece of artillery that uses an explosive based propellant to launch a projectile. The word cannon comes from multiple languages and usually means tube or cane.

Hello this is Casey Wenner's Blog about the artillery piece known as the cannon and how it has evolved with time. Our Freshman class at Issac bear has been assigned a project about cannons in which we must maintain a blog documenting all our research and work we put into this project. We must first understand the evolution of the cannon through research, as well as arguing the ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction development. Then we must work out the mathematics behind the projectile motion cannons use. Finally the Coup De Grace we have to construct a working cannon that can propel a small Nerf ball the farthest using two tennis ball cans (+ the lids) 18 inches of tape 99% ethanol and a match. (The last two being used to actually fire the cannon)



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"Cannons." Wikipedia.com. Wikipedia, n.d. Web. 14, January 2011