Week 1- Progress

As of this week, no progress has been made. Unfortunately, my project advisor has not been around in order to allow me access to work on the project independently. Due to the nature of the project involving compressed gases and projectiles. The School of Science has advised that I not do work unless supervised.

However, if were able to get into the lab, I would be checking seals on the launcher we created for our ballistic pendulum. I would create an opening for the air tank and for the nozzle so as to feed Compressed Nitrogen into the system to launch the projectile.

Once the system has a good seal and can handle the load of the compressed air. We will move on to the test fire phase. Using, plexiglass guards and a remote controlled valve, we will release the pressure and send the projectile into our test receptacle. If successful, we will begin full construction of the pendulum portion of the project and set up the slow motion camera and the measuring instruments to gather data.