No, it fly away with speed about 5 to 10 m/s from air without making a contact with anything. Recall the spinning base magnet have enough force to accelerate it, I am not sure the energy of spin of floating magnet contribute this action or not, but such high speed ejections mostly occur when floating magnet have large spin. David Roberson wrote:Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:14:42 -0800
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 Sent from mobile
