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Example sentences for: cannonball

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The digging of the groove in the dirt by the cannonball constitutes the construction of constraints on the release of energy, for the water flowing down the gravitational potential to the bean field is just such a constrained release of energy.
Let us modify the device such that the cannonball, after hitting the paddle wheel and setting it spinning, is deflected downward onto the ground and digs a long shallow groove in the dirt, with high sides due to the displaced dirt.
Indeed, I might have sent the cannonball bouncing along a large steel plate rather than hitting mere dirt.
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.
Figure .a exhibits a cannon, clearly marked “cannon,” firing a cannonball, clearly marked “cannonball,” that hits the ground some distance away, creating a hole, clearly marked “hole.”