Building a self looping "SMOT"

[vineet_kiran]

 
@elecar,


Seeing your track and DTB's drawing this track (attached pdf file) flashed to me.  Kindly have a look and let me have your thoughts.

[elecar]

Hi Vineet,
                That is basically the same design used in a conventional SMOT. To my knowledge no one has ever looped one, not even one time.
I did see a design that I thought had potential that worked in a similar way, I will see if I can find the videos and post the links.

[elecar]

I agree, we are still waiting on the promised retake.
Bill

Hi Bill, apologies, I did not forget, I tried to load the 7 1/2 minute  video here and it took some 15 minutes or so, at the end of which I got a message saying that the upload had failed because of the file size exceeded 6000KB.  I then answered 6 or 7 of the masses of PMs I had then went to bed as it was after midnight. I will get you that video up today, it is worth watching.

[norman6538]

Some progress today. Increased the magnet stack and tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and got the ball to go 1/2 inch past its dropped point and then drop back down  and away from the sticky spot. The ball weighs 64 grams so this is quite a bit of extra work over and beyond my small pendulum weight of about 10 grams.

Without the magnet stack the ball would normally go about 2 inches less.
Its quite easy to do so go try it.

I worked on the escape but have nothing impressive to report.
good luck with yours.

Norman

[LibreEnergia]

That's interesting but you are transferring the reference frame to suit your need.
One could have a rope connected to the rocket and slow it down while turning a generator extracting energy from the moving rocket.
In space, the rocket did not know it was moving until you said it was moving from earth, so energy can be extracted now by the rope otherwise, from the frame of the rocket, firing the jets will cause acceleration and will require energy.

No 'reference frame is being transferred' at all.
The rocket requires energy to change its velocity in any way, whether that is to speed up or slow down or change direction.

That it can use other objects in space to achieve that is immaterial.

The end result is work must be done to achieve a velocity change.