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Originally posted by apc
You run into the motor phenomena with this, which is what all electromagnetic rotary motors are based off of.
Basically, what youre describing in your diagram, wouldnt work because as the magnet passed point 1, the field from point 3 would already be exibiting a repulsive force, maintaining the attractive position at point 1. It would edge into point 2 for only an instant, never even making it to point 3.
The other ideas proposed in this thread would launch it beyond point 2, using point 3 to propel it back around, but as has already been said, you'd use more energy than you gained.
Keep up the thoughts tho.. noone ever learns anything new until they question what we already 'know.'
It seems to me that outside the 2 magnets acts with moving the wheel and the space between the magnets acts against it. I am thinking that if the wheel weighs a good amount and the two magnet are close together, it seems there would around 66% for the movement and 33% against, thus making it enough to keep going.
Originally posted by utrex
It seems to me that outside the 2 magnets acts with moving the wheel and the space between the magnets acts against it. I am thinking that if the wheel weighs a good amount and the two magnet are close together, it seems there would around 66% for the movement and 33% against, thus making it enough to keep going.
godservant, the problem with your reasoning here is that the magnitudes of the forces are not equal at all three points. At (1), there will be one "large" accelerating force and one "small" decelerating one (from the right-side magnet), at (2) there will be two "large" decelerating forces, and at (3) there will be one "large" accelerating force and two "small" ones. (The different "large forces" will not necessarily be exactly equal due to the distance to the magnets changing as the central one rotates around the wheel, but they will be similary.)
It might be easier to understand this if you consider what happens if just the left magnet is there and then just the right magnet, and take the total interaction as the sum of these.
Originally posted by Shadow88
Your basic concept is on the right track, but try adding magnets all the way round, so the pivot, also with a north magnet on its end, will constantly be repelling. If i finish mine ill post a link to the new thread.