Re: Flywheel


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Posted by grim (206.162.192.40) on April 28, 2003 at 14:23:24:

In Reply to: Flywheel posted by David on April 28, 2003 at 12:39:05:

: Let's say, for convenience, that the wheel had to make one-eighth (1/8th) of a turn to allow the internal mechanism(s) to overcome the inertial state of the wheel.
: Now then, from a 1/8th turn to 26 rpm in 2 to 3 revolutions is pretty impressive, wouldn't you say? I see nothing in the accounts that they turned the wheel by hand with anywhere near enough force to give it a starting speed of 26 (or even 20) rpm.
: They always gave it a gentle push to get it going. And from that point on, it increased in speed all by itself. It only needed enough of a turn to overcome it's at-rest state.
: And if it could do that (and apparently IT DID), it's certainly not going to be slowing down much (if at all.) And also note that the witnesses timed it, and they found it spinning at the same rate as when they locked it up.
: ACTED like a flywheel, yes. Was a flywheel, no

:
: This does not prove it was not a flywheel. Don't confuse this with my saying it was. If it made use of internal stored power it could meet all these points and more. MY POINT was to mearly show a flywheel can run for a very long time using very little stored power.

The rotating weights inertia would lend to a flywheel effect.


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