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 3.00 m long and joining particles of mass m₁ = 0.120 kg and m₂ = 57.0 kg at its ends. It can turn on a frictionless horizontal axle perpendicular to the rod and 11.5 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 when it leaves the trebuchet horizontally. m/s m₁ 3.00 m m2 i

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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 3.00 m long and joining particles of mass
m₁ = 0.120 kg and m₂ = 57.0 kg at its ends. It can turn on a frictionless horizontal axle perpendicular to the rod and 11.5 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 when it
leaves the trebuchet horizontally.
m/s
m₁
3.00 m
m2
i
Transcribed Image Text: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 3.00 m long and joining particles of mass m₁ = 0.120 kg and m₂ = 57.0 kg at its ends. It can turn on a frictionless horizontal axle perpendicular to the rod and 11.5 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 when it leaves the trebuchet horizontally. m/s m₁ 3.00 m m2 i
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