Index Card #18

at the most basicness of a trebuchet, a trebuchet is simply a lever that uses centifugal force to its advantage. consider a seesaw if one person is sitting on one end and 2 fat people jump on the other end the person is most likely to go flying. this is like a trebuchet except the arm is pivoted in the middle and the counterweight and projectiles are the partipants ussaly the counterweight weighs much more than the projectile ussaly 10x more than one.