You say that the magnets fly away with high speed using the spin energy. Does this outward linear motion occur after the magnet falls to the table and makes contact with it in some manner? Otherwise one might expect the magnet to spin rapidly as it drops towards the tabletop with a modest amount of horizontal velocity. Angular momentum and linear momentum should be orthogonal to each other.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: H Ucar <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 12:51 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]:Epitrochoidal oscillations The problem is possible requirement of strong interaction at short distance with forces of several tens of Newtons while still maintaining the delicate levitation/stability. I don't want to play with larger magnets because when they become unstabilized can fly away in random directions and when meet iron furniture, materials or other magnets it get damaged.They are expensive too, to trash them few of them in a session. Lately I tried to find spin lock while spinning the floating magnet in opposing direction of the base magnet spin using compressed air. There was no problem on spinning up the magnet while floating but when it reach a critical high speed while seeking the lock, possibly a resonance happens (It can be seen a precession like motion for an instance) and the magnet fly away with high speed using the kinetic energy of its high spin. Jones Beene wrote: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:36:53 -0800 Very interesting. If there is any possibility of creating a macro self-powered effect using the interplay of magnets, selective application of torque, and gravity - such as often claimed with the infamous “magmo” designs which never quite get there … it will likely exploit hypotrochoidal geometry - instead of simple rotation.
