Tests on Ring Magnet SMOT - Not bad!

[vineet_kiran]

It does not  work with ramp also!


https://youtu.be/jGD-pd1OP2U

[Low-Q]

Tried with circular loop - Failed!

https://youtu.be/sLYUImmgjtw


It does not work with circular loop, the magnet is kicking back! 

I think as webby1 said there is some mystery in the wild turn and I will try to change looping introducing wild angles instead of circular loop.

When you think of it, the rolling magnet wants to approach the sticky spot at the end of the loop. That sticky spot is not going away when the magnet is suppose to continue beyond it. It's really that simple.
Without the sticky spot, the magnet would not approach it in the first place, but it does regardless of which way the rolling magnet is going. Because permanent magnets does not provide energy, this experiment and similar will fail every time.


Vidar

[rstergar]

i tried something similar but no luck


i have some other ideas that might work but i must build it to test it... will post when i finish...

[vineet_kiran]

i tried something similar but no luck

Nice build.   The gap between central slot and magnets at the beginning is far more than the gap at the end. (sticky point).  This happens when you make magnet array in a long arc.  If you make array in shorter bits you can reduce that gap difference.

[Newton II]

When you think of it, the rolling magnet wants to approach the sticky spot at the end of the loop. That sticky spot is not going away when the magnet is suppose to continue beyond it. It's really that simple.
Without the sticky spot, the magnet would not approach it in the first place, but it does regardless of which way the rolling magnet is going. Because permanent magnets does not provide energy, this experiment and similar will fail every time.

What happens if you release one more ring magnet on the track when the first magnet is already held up in sticky spot?  The second ring magnet moves towards sticky spot and kicks the first magnet out of sticky spot by repulsion which (first magnet)  again moves towards sticky spot on the track and kicks the latter from the sticky spot.

Will not this ass kicking go on for ever?