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About heat transfer via internal stress in materials... There are moons of Jupiter and/or Saturn which heated up by the gravitational effects causing stretch/stress forces inside the body of such moon. This info is just popped into my mind at random. That's interesting, maybe my thinkering is not f...

Hey Gregory .. very interesting thought experiments - I do have some immediate thoughts and comments about them ( still refining, more coffee ) but will hold off relying in any detail for a couple of days if that's ok, or only take a quick shallow dive into the rabbit hole lol .. Right, take your t...

In many a sense Energy budgeting was what the sim-experiments were about wrt the horizontal swingers violating WEEP, and Noether symmetries, at the local level - where PE was gained ( Total Energy increased ) in a mechanical system ( Energy from the background ) which could then later be transforme...

Gregory .. to your previous - I hear yuh, and feel the pain - it can be exhausting research and more than tests the resilience, breaks help .. if energy can be made to just disappear ( usually to some background ) then it should be able to be made to appear ( also usually from some background ) - b...

I'm going to start building a new sim in the next few days that I've been thinking about - it is related to the bounce factor and Swingers OOB need to get a rapid acceleration - we'll see how it works out - like the A-Prime experiments you may have a more simple of better way to isolate and test it...

Actually, this is not just empty belief on my part. I could back it up with stuff. During my research I sim-made several different versions of ordinary closed system machines which (after given some initial kinetic energy) can lose energy continuously. Doing this action while there is no friction i...

The spinning top is a fascinating toy and can offer many metaphors. Lots of times I wanted to say a few things about this subject and the toys page, but always forgot it. 8] The most interesting type is the tippe top, and I think that's the one on the toys page. Now all the other toys, the hammerman...

Hi again Gregory .. I have a couple of thoughts to share on your sim and post - hope they make sense in the cold light of day .. Firstly .. I agree, your sim is a clever and well executed sim - as you say you used some clever back and forth manipulations ( transfers ) of an initial push into motion...

Hi Gregory .. wow, you put plenty of work and fine detail into building that sim - it looks complex to most but I think I get what you are trying to do - I did watch it stretch its legs more than a few times, and read over your descriptions and analysis as I went so I had a solid mind map of what I...

Hi Fletcher, Happy to see that gearing trick working! As well as the A-prime recovering. I upload the latest swinger wheel variant I experimented with in the last few weeks. It consist of a simple spring variator, a wheel with 16 swingers connected together as a team, a heavy central balance beam (l...

You said it before Greg, and we all know it to be true, and why the Conservation Laws capture everything and not just our swinger carts in isolation etc .. Newton's 3rd Law of action and reaction .. In the first law, an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it. In the second law,...

That's looking good, MrTim!
Professor Goodstuff is also a decent addition to the collection! :)

Gregory .. here is your dampened spring sim with a mod - I locked down the right hand side pendulum so it can't swing upwards but the left hand side one can - so it gets full inertia at the start .. It is increasing in velocity ( and KE ) between stop and starts building up quickly, even with dampe...

Gregory , I am not sure if the same sign can be used because it changes how the energy calculation has to be done , one is a subtraction from the energy budged and the other an addition to it , (i wont know i am not a math wiz :/ ) using the correct sign is however the correct way though , in wm2d ...

Thanks for making the dampener springs-pushing swinger sim Gregory, as a further check test etc ( wow, there are some complicated formulas in there that took some working out by you, kudos ) - they hopefully help clarify or eliminate some thoughts about mechanical possibilities, or not, as the case...