Smith ramp v 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNq0Rw8aRI4
Has anyone see this would this work in a loop?
thanks!
interesting magnet arrangement, never seen this before.
looks like it might work in a closed loop.
must be put to the test asap to confirm this.
peace
It seems so simple would have thought it would have been tried.
The stack of magnets should be made twice as long to avoid end effects stretching to the car magnet,
Then he should try to release the car in the middle of the magnets.
If it accelerates from there it could work in a closed loop.
By the way. Can any of you see the polarity of the magnets in his drawing?
I cannot determine this. It just looks like lots of the capital D.
Am I right in thinking because it is a configuration that repeats there is a multitude of sticking points that the runner continues throw so it would work in a loop.
But it would be nice to see a longer track.
it appears he is using a C & D notation for the magnetic polarities instead of N & S / + & - or what have you.
It won't matter much as long as they are same face up and opposing the car magnets.
But in actuallity one pole pushes harder (like poles),
and the other pole pulls equally harder (opposing poles or attraction of paramagnetic materials).
within the flux loop they are equal and opposite giving them a net force of = 0 .
but when you are using them to propell something like this and not use the attraction side of the loop then there is usually a "slight" diference by changing the polarity, that increases exponentially with flux density.
i.e. - if you are using neodyium instead of these iron-ferrite magnets, you may want to pay closer attention to which side "pushes" better.
G'day all,
Am I here missing something. It looks very much like the same phenomenon we have seen hundreds of times only with a different arrangement of the magnets.
Hans von Lieven