2009/11/8 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>: ... > Suppose the spinning of the assembly was caused by the counter-rotation of > the motor shaft and what is attached to it. What would happen when the pump > was turned off? The rotation would stop as the pump rotor slowed down and > stopped. Conservation of angular momentum. If part of you spins one way, > suspended in space you are, then part of you must spin the other way, so > that the sum of angular momenta remains constant.
A very good point Abd, counter-rotation of the device balancing the internal rotations of the shaft assembly and of the cooling fluid in the cooling circuit seems a perfectly good explanation for the phenomenon. Michel
