Hello cesiumfrog, thank you for the reply.
After doing more reading and watching some videos of rail guns in action, I convinced my cousin that trying to create a railgun powerful enough to impale a solid wooden object was probably not a good idea.
We found a pretty cool video of simple...
My cousin is thinking about entering a science fair. Originally, we were going to build a small RC robot from scratch. Then he heard about rail guns on tv. You can guess which won.
I have a light university background in physics (graduated in 09), but electronics and electromagnetism were not...