Trebuchet Research Paper

...Free Floating Trebuchet...

My class is currently doing a project on the history and designs of trebuchets. We are going to build one of the following Trebuchets; Free Floating, Fixed Counter Weight, and the Hinged Counter Weight. As you can see in the picture Below are to examples of the fixed and hinged Trebuchets.(Sodabob.com).The picture to the right is an example of a Free Floating Trebuchet(tsakshaug-nonesense.blogspot.com).

...Fixed counter weight on left and Hinged counter weight on right...