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I did no such thing, it'sjust that I'm so bad at making points or questions concise and clear it takes several attempts. :-) Thank you for putting Fletcher back in the proper context, nic. I didn't mean to attribute that quote to him yet I suppose this is an important topic with lots of questions.

The weights on the ascending side are definitely closer to the axle, which means it's easy for the weights further from axle descending side , at a greater radius , to be be able to descend and lift those on the ascending side. How you stop the things swinging around and spoiling the show is anyone'...

Hi, agreed 100 %. It's the unexplicably efficient I'm thinking about. At simplest, an Atwoods with 100 gramme weights either side of the string. You stumble on some voodoo part, a cam or whatever, and adding 1 gram to one side sends the 100 + 1 gram side travelling down at a greater speed than the m...

How about DO as in "Dream on" ?"

agor95 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 28, 2021 7:10 pm Could we have an abbreviation for 'No it will not work' and 'Where is the energy coming from'.

P.S. We could do a reversal where 'Runner' and 'None Runner' take the other meaning. It will cheer some folk up and get more viewers for a while.

Hi all, I've been away from this forum and more generally from PM for some years. There is still a probably badly failed build banging aound in the attic. It might make a nice random ham slicer. My main issue is defining OU. It isn't as simple as a wheel with a overbalance weight starting revolving ...

Or in the words of the wise internet : "Ordinary bar magnets have the north pole on one end, and the south on the other. ... Round magnets have the north pole on one side, and they have the south on the other" OK, forget that, looked at the vid closely, the guy says 90° rotation from attr...

That is a concept I have been thinking about for a heck of a long time. The thinking is that as a wheel magnet approaches an external magnet, you get the external magnet to physically flip or rotate, so that the side (polarity) facing the mag on the wheel changes at precisely the right moment, so yo...

Could anyone, offhand, tell me if air, ie the atmosphere we breath in and out and extract o2 from, has a positive and negative polarity ? The actual oxygen carried in the air too ? The exhaled air too ? Would passing that air through a pipe with a copper wire wound around it or inside it produce any...

You might want to take the kitchen scales with you. So you can see how much pressure you put on the wall. Also note the arm a 3 0'clock is not contacting a wall so you need to keep away from friction forces agained the wall. Good look Oops, just saw this, we agree on the two scales needed. The pend...

Yep, 71kgs vertical, 71 leaning sideways give or take some miniscule movement of the scale needle due to the way the scales are sensitive to CoM. And 67 with the scales nearer the wall , same amount of lean but hand against wall supporting some or all of the offset body weight. You'd really need sca...

OK, I am going to do something right now: stand on the bathroom scales, read weight. Then lean sideways as much as I can with arm extended. That should be equivalent of an OB offset. The weight reading should be the same, even if the scales aren't Roberval. Then I move the scales to near a wall and ...

PS: Like me, the Wife's eyesight isn't what it once was, so she'd need to be bent down pretty close to those scales I'm standing on, and I can't see how the experiment could possibly be extended long enough in those sort of circumstances.

Thx. Yep, it's been a while, got a bit involved in politics and stuff. Complete waste of time, energy, money. I agree w/ you 100 % Fletch. The weight registering on the scales is identical whether the OB weight is at 6, 3 or 12. At 6 , it takes a given effort to rotate that wheel to 12 and gain GPE....

Considering Newton's 3rd law, in the drawing below, where a rotating wheel with a weight on extension arm is mounted on a pendulum arm, if the arm is locked into place, and the wheel+weight is rotated 90° from bdc 180° and locked, is total F greater than in the "all vertical" scenario ?

Sorry, I've now made the 3 links on this page and the 1 on the previous page "public".