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Uploaded by on Mar 19, 2010

the tube of water is repelled by magnets at different heights

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  • just get a strong magnet you can place over the top of the vile and cap the vile off, maybe using some pyrolytic graphite there are some easy ways to get that online and it might just stabilize the magnet in the center and also ud still be able to move it up and down at will if the top magnet isnt as strong as the ones youve got on all sides

  • @jesseg1699 a very good idea...and yes i have thought about using other materials instead of water for better results... thanks for the neat comment.

  • What is the longest amount of time that it has been in continuous motion? Days? weeks? It seems like a really neat motion toy.

  • @kafr8413 cant really say. it will drift towards the edge eventually as there is nothing to hold it in the central position. But it never stopped while it is in contact with just the water. Seen some of your pendulum vid. Maybe we can work together especially on something im workn on called a compass engine.

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  • KamalMichael, what is the arrangement of these magnets?

    Are they alternating heights above the water level or are they ascending in height?

    Thanks.

  • @kafr8413 OH IVE GOT IT! make bldes with water in them. set it up like a sideways waterwheel and pretend the magnet repeling the blades is the water pushing the blades.

  • @SunflashX I never claimed it to be anything other than an experiment and all i know is that it is almost impossible for the tube of water to stand still at the centre. It will either spin or drift to the edge... take the magnets away and then the tube of water will hold stationary at the centre... as i said the orignal idea was to keep the tube repelled in a zig zag manner from one side to the other

  • @kamalmichael So the tube itself spins as well? Why would this happen? The tube itself should have little interaction with the magnets. And I'm still not convinced that simply putting magnets at different levels is going to make it spin (as this would violate conservation of energy), or that having magnets that large distance away is going to have any noticeable effect at all.

  • @SunflashX the tube of water in the centre is on a float. the magnets repels the tube of water. The magnets are on different levels to the tube of water. Since each magnet is trying to push the tube of water to the edge, it somewhat stays in the middle and spins... this experiment is i originally wanted the tube of water to be pushed from edge to edge or have a long line of magnets to push it in a straight line ..or a zig zag ...a form of water transport...

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