SMOT - Next Video

[billmehess]

Here is the youtube link.
http://youtu.be/wKC1i3PCtpQ

I can now exit the SMOT down the uchannel at a greater height than the entry height.
Bill

[billmehess]

I have received a couple of emails regarding this video. Yes the exit point off the uchannel is higher than the entry point to the SMOT. Stay tuned.
Bill

[hartiberlin]

Well done Bill,
try to get it looping.

Try to use the braioschtoire principal
to get it back to the entrance.

[billmehess]

Well done Bill,
try to get it looping.

Try to use the braioschtoire principal
to get it back to the entrance.

What is the braioschtoire principal?
Also in my continuing work on a self looping SMOT I have found a way to have the ball propel itself
off the end of the uchannel instead of the normal dropping off. Just a thought here, since the ball enters the uchannel at a fairly low speed but shoots off the end of the uchannel at an incline it would appear logical to think that there is more energy out than in. Is this correct?

[gyulasun]

Hi Bill

here is a wiki link to brachistochrone problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone_curve 

and some videos on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brachistochrone+problem&aq=0

"What's the fastest path between two points? A cycloid, the solution to the Brachistrochrone problem."

Unfortunately, the "academic circles" simply state the energy of the ball coming down on the cycloid curve is the same as that of the ball coming down on the linear ramp.

MHO is you surely can come better off when you choose such cycloid shaped plastic tube for the ball when trying to loop and NOT letting the ball fall and bump anywhere (bumping causes the most loss occuring).

Gyula