On Aug 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Harry Veeder wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OdBa8bZHl8
http://tinyurl.com/r7e5gu
I was wondering about changing the orientation too, although I would
have suggested clamping the motor vertically
Uh ... I *did* remount the motor vertically for that test. Compare
to the prior video where it is mounted horizontally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlVn-uqxig
I had to do this because I needed to keep the battery in its proper
orientation.
(instead of hanging the
apparatus) to see if gravity affects the motor.
Harry
I have no idea what you mean here. This is a test of angular momentum
conservation, not gravity. If the motor does not conserve angular
momentum then the base to which it is attached will spin in the axis
in which the motor spins - which it did not.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
