Of course 🤦‍♂️Grimer wrote:from:- Sat 05 Oct, 2013 12:29 pm
Post subject: re: Another claim to a working device...
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The generation of the higher derivative energy can best be illustrated with
a coin rolling demonstration.
If you roll a seven sided 50p coin (the large pre-1997 are best) along a
smooth horizontal plane the coin will initially jump up and down with a
rattling noise. This is because though the diameter of the coin is constant
its centre of mass is not generally at the half diameter point. When the
coin is rolling fast enough the vertical oscillation of the mass centre is
sufficient to lift the coil free of the horizontal surface. The impact
when if falls back causes the rattling.
As the speed decreases there come a point where the rattling suddenly
ceases and the coin rolls smoothly.
This is the point where the vertical oscillation of the mass centre is
insufficient to lift the coin. It only varies the force applied by the
coin to the horizontal plane.
The pendulum is only constrained from moving downwards not from moving
upwards except by the limited weight of the assembly.
Thank heavens for hyperactive grandsons and thanks very much for
refocusing my attention on that, Georg.
If I do have restraint at the top and bottom with rails, move the carriage to
the axle line and make the weight of the wheel negligible to the bob the
the path of the bob will be a series of cycloids.
Since a cycloid is the path of a rolling circle all the 3rd derivative energy will
have been transmuted into 1st derivative energy.