The Lee-Tseung Lead Out Theory

[broli]

You don't need a science lab or an air track. Mount the contraption on a piece of styrofoam and put it in a swimming pool or bath tub.

You soon see it doesn't work.

Hans von Lieven

I'm pretty sure the swimming pool won't be enough for you guys as you'd use the same argument as the table top where it has something to push itself off.

@Tseung: What do you need to sustain levitation.

[ltseung888]

We have some trouble uploading to youtube.

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http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=9GqxjBwxSFA

Repulsion with a larger permanent magnet in the right position was used.

The permanent magnet and its white plastic attachment jumped up easily.

It will take Dr. Raymond Ting more time to perfect this.  He intends to add a top coil to provide attraction.  The combination should provide a large enough upward force to move/jump the entire setup (including the transparent tube and coil but not battery)  more than 10 cm.

One step at a time.

[ltseung888]

The Tong Po Chi device with top removed.

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=FafYVGbgULw

The top coil uses attraction to make the magnet jump.  However, as soon as the permanent magnet reaches the middle of the coil, the upward force starts to change into a downward force.  Thus the magnet will not fly out.

The best timing is for the current to the coil to stop when the permanent magnet reaches the middle of the top coil.  The permanet magnet should then jump out to the maximum height (or impact the upper restraining surface with maximum momentum).

Much more work is needed.  Programming and monitoring techniques need to be developed.

Two individuals using different techniques but same theory produce two sets of useful results.  More innovative ideas were developed.

[TinselKoala]

I'm pretty sure the swimming pool won't be enough for you guys as you'd use the same argument as the table top where it has something to push itself off.

@Tseung: What do you need to sustain levitation.

Exactly right. The "swimming pool" test (which I call the "canoe test) can be fooled, in exactly the same way that air tracks and tables can be fooled--by asymmetric time-varying friction areas caused by weight shifts, and thrust  vectors that are at an angle to the line of least resistance.

What Tseung needs to sustain levitation, by these kinds of devices, is a way to turn fantasy into reality. Unfortunately, the genie that grants three wishes isn't a part of Chinese mythology.

[TinselKoala]

The Tong Po Chi device with top removed.

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=FafYVGbgULw

The top coil uses attraction to make the magnet jump.  However, as soon as the permanent magnet reaches the middle of the coil, the upward force starts to change into a downward force.  Thus the magnet will not fly out.

The best timing is for the current to the coil to stop when the permanent magnet reaches the middle of the top coil.  The permanet magnet should then jump out to the maximum height (or impact the upper restraining surface with maximum momentum).

Much more work is needed.  Programming and monitoring techniques need to be developed.

Two individuals using different techniques but same theory produce two sets of useful results.  More innovative ideas were developed.

I am rolling on the floor, laughing my silly asterisk off.
You have invented the SOLENOID!!

I hope Dr. Tong didn't get a bloody nose.

At this rate, you will soon invent the rail gun, and then the military will come and shut you down.