Physics and Astronomy Club President Taylor Burns releases a catapult and watches as it sends a pumpkin flying into the air during the club’s Punkin’ Chunkin’ event on Friday afternoon on the lawn outside the Recreation and Wellness Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
The club constructed the catapult and used it to demonstrate properties of physics by launching pie and heirloom pumpkins along with other objects toward an inflatable swimming pool set up as a target. Some of the pumpkins didn’t survive the testing.
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