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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...