Скачать или смотреть Catapult Physics to Rocket Science: How Ancient Warfare Engineered Our Modern Propulsion

Is a modern rocket really that different from an ancient Roman catapult? 🏹🚀 At first glance, they seem worlds apart, but the fundamental physics of launching an object into the unknown has remained unchanged for over two millennia.

In this episode of Trace of History, we deconstruct the "Physics Evolution" from the battlefield to the launchpad. We explore how the ancient mastery of Potential Energy storage—using twisted animal sinews and tension—paved the way for the high-energy chemical propellants that take us to the stars today..

📍 In this investigation, we uncover:

The Torsion Revolution: How ancient engineers used biological polymers (hair and sinew) to store immense energy, creating the first precision-guided weapons.

The Physics of Trajectory: How the Greeks and Romans calculated ballistic curves centuries before the formalization of classical mechanics.

The Rocketry Connection: How the internal ballistics of an ancient catapult’s "power stroke" shares a direct mathematical lineage with the thrust-to-weight ratios of modern SpaceX and NASA rockets.

Bio-Mechanical Engineering: A look at how ancient machines were "tuned" like musical instruments to maximize energy output.

The machines change, but the laws of physics are eternal.

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