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Example sentences for: cannonball

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The water-filled bucket has now rested, silent and waiting, until the cannonball strikes the paddle wheel, whereupon the wheel spins, the red rope winds up, pulling the water-filled bucket up the well, up against the axle, which tilts the bucket over you will have to imagine this part and pours the water into a long funnel that slopes down from the wellhead toward my bean field.
The explosion of gunpowder is evidently the same, as is the flight of the cannonball.
The point of the cannon and cannonball in the two figures is to emphasize that there is the same total input of energy into the two cases.
Prior to my firing the cannonball, I contrived to tie one end of a red rope around the axle of the paddle wheel and a modest size bucket to the other end of the rope.
Obviously, in Figure .a, most of the energy carried by the cannonball is dissipated as heat, random molecular motions induced in the particles of dirt.