Laplace rail

[CRJEEA]

now put the strips in a circle and make a magnetic wankle engine...

-maybe I should try that :D

[arvindbd]

240p, we meet again!!

[fuelban]

good video guy, thanks

Thom in Scotland.

[Miroslawsnketr]

did he died?

[moshimonster33]

does mormon know about this?

[animaanimaanima]

can someone explain how electron guns work?

[The2x4]

This was a great idea and experimenting proved it works.

This is two "Homo-polar Motors" spinning the "axle" to make it go, there is no alternating anything. You could use this for trains, just not levitating ones. It would work for cars as well, if you had the tires modified to conduct electricity.

Great Thinking gilbondfac!

[douro20]

@The2x4

The problem is, like any homopolar motor, is that the current being fed into the motor will eventually cause the magnets to heat up so much that they would lose their magnetism (superparamagnetic effect).

[The2x4]

@douro20 Granted; anything that moves has the potential to heat up and eventually the heat will make it stop working, if the heat builds up enough. But with all the numerous ways to cool them down, that is only something to calculate into the design, not something that will stop it from ever working.

[12beav]

from my understanding Maglev Trains don't use motors, well i guess you can say it's kind of mottor but not electric. they get they're energy from the tracks itself by magnetism on the top, bottom, and the sides. the magnetic field from all sides pretty much levitate the train, hence the name Mag(netic)Lev(itation). the way the train moves is by alternating the polarization of the rail.

[jorgeluis1230]

hi...I'm from Colombia...

In physic lab class we're talking about magnetism... I saw your video... and I decide that this could be a good proyect to show in the classroom... I've tried make it.. but... I don't know why it doesn't work :( ... Could you be more exact in the refrences of the materials that you used... Please...Thanks :)

[datscilly]

they also call this a "railgun"

[proofhits]

because a train is like... 100000 time bigger than that and probably the energy equired to make those things advance cost really ,much so yeah...

[adamslurch71]

how do you think a maglev works. same basic principle.

[guts777]

How come trains and stuff don't use that stuff?

[wespel]

If it has an electric motor, it DOES use this force. Laplace force is the base for every electric spinning motor.

[pastrysnack]

they do look up maglev

[zombierobopirate]

there is a superior principle based on superconduction and eddy currents

[S2Bchallenger]

very nice

[luckynumber58]

oh! right in the nuts!

[fatalistjohannes]

it's the same principle of a railgun

[CrashingThunder]

This is actually pretty cool

[marx939]

it needs big current for that 4 volts

[Destructerator]

good way to launch new space vehicles?

[Tuttipazzixpizzi]

how many volts it needs? and the cylinder in the middle of the magnets is magnetic too?

[gilbondfac]

2 magnets disk on a axe and 4.5 Volts 2 Amp 2 aluminium band on plastic

the result =lorentz force

[firedude201234]

@gilbondfac

you mean "2 disk magnets on an axle"?

[redghost105]

@gilbondfac is there any way where you could have something like this in a circle where it completes one circle then half way through it changes the electric flor so that the original negative side now has positive charge going though and and making it go around in a circle till it hits a certain speed then you could turn the cicruit of and it would shoot off?if you get what im talking about

if im not making sense ill try to explain better

[sparkyprojects]

@redghost105 I think you could make a circle, you may need a break in the tracks, but the motion of the axle would jump the gap.

Secondly, you would either need one of the discs able to spin independently, or the outer disc larger than the inner, think of a differential on a car.

[bbphnix]

@gilbondfac lorentz force? on what?

[bbphnix]

@gilbondfac by the way, is this how they make rail guns?

[Thunderbird1200]

@bbphnix yep

[lambogeek]

could be tech of the future...metal bands on roads with magnets in car wheels

[WikianswersKevin]

Yeah, but say someone stepped on the road barefoot for some reason which has thousands of volts going through it? I smell problems. Kinda reminds me of the third rail myth.

[wildin13]

wasnt that myth proved worng. or are you one of the people (like me) who see flaws in the way they preformed their test's. although i havn't mentioned the TV show, i prosume you know what i am talking about.

[marvinerzz]

Mythbusters, i think.

[ellislake]

does this consume any amps from your power source as this would solve the last piece of my puzzle for my infinite running low power generator. please reposnd to this anyone that knows how this works

[FireCrack]

Yes, it consumes power like everything else obeying the laws of thermodynamics.

[lazzer408]

There's always that one guy probing at that question isn't there. =)

[douro20]

This is a linear homopolar motor. Propulsion is entirely by Lorenz forces acting on a naturally spinning magnetic field.

[xxKelthinxx]

man, you could probably make cars go so fast with i thing like that.

[aricbutler]

What did you use for your Power Source? How did you get 4.5 Voltage Potential and 2 Amps of current?

[howisdiscool]

oh man we're advancing faster than i thought lol

[sacha4you]

Take couple kilo-amps and U-beams. Then you will have a rail gun.

CAUTION: Such a device can shot dead somebody.

;-))

[milla4da8killa]

Adjust the amount of electricity. Put that on a cycilender on the inside you go yourself an electric car.

[lejink]

wtf is that sound in the baclground

[VideyoJunkei]

lopsided clock?

[howisdiscool]

would make a good train... if it had brakes

[blaaskaak666]

Reverse the polarity?

[howisdiscool]

there we go, perfectly good train lol and the brakes wont just jolt to a stop, in a way

[blaaskaak666]

Yeah, and you totaly can't regulate the power...

[howisdiscool]

true

[thecore12345]

20ft brick wall?

[m3sca1]

so how much voltage does it make when you roll the magnet down the track by hand,with a volt meter on the rails?

reminds me of the rollers on the searle device

[Subspace4d]

you did it again 5 stars :D

[proffesorcat]

cool.

[jikkedome]

Thats neat, lots of cool stuff could be done with those physics.

[gijs01061993]

wahahha nice job man you need to make somting like a track so he can stay on one line

grait job!!!!