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- From: jhwhit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
- Subject: Re: Measuring the acceleration of an arrow.
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.040131.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:01:31 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov22.203815.9006@hemlock.cray.com>
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- In article <1992Nov22.203815.9006@hemlock.cray.com>, kilian@cray.com (Alan Kilian) writes:
- > Well here's another project for you.
- >
- > A friend of mine (Who shall remain nameless) always makes his hobbies
- > complicated and scientific.
- > He's into archery now. Well (you say to yourself) how complicated can you
- > make archery? Pretty complicated as it turns out. He has measured the draw
- > force/draw length relationship and made a graph. Then integrated the thing
- > to get energy and used the weight of an arrow to get acceleration and
- > velocity (He even knows the Horsepower of the bow). Now he wants to actually
- > measure the acceleration of the arrow as it goes from rest to about
- > 200 Feet per second. This is where I cone into the picture.
-
- Why not do this instead? Get a light (styrofoam) spool of light thread, and
- glue two large cardboard disks to each end. Punch a hole in each disk near
- the midway point of the annular region formed between the spool and disks.
- These holes should line up so that light passing through one passes through
- the other. Forgot to say that the center of each cardboard disk should be
- punched out so that the spool ends and disks are concentric. Mount the spool
- on a spindle, and have a light source on one side, and a light detector on
- the other, opposing one another at the aligned holes in the disks.
-
- Tie the end of the thread to the arrow. When the arrow is shot, the thread
- will unwind spinning the spool. Each revolution of the spool will cause an
- interrupt level when the light on one side is detected at the other. During
- each interrupt, record the time.
-
- If you want, you can set up a counter based on the light detection pulses
- that causes an interrupt and reset of the counter at some state.
-
- Maybe a better way would be to just punch the hole in one disk, and have the
- light source and detector positioned on either side of it.
-
-
- | |
- | |
- |\_____________/|
- | spool |
- ------------------------ spindle
- | _____________ |
- |/ \|
- O---->O |
- source|detector |
-
-
- Of course, rewinding the thread for a second attempt would be a pain.
-
- Jeff White jhwhit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
-