You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
84 points

Fun at partys guy: While the car will actually experience a force torwards the magnet, so will the magnet experience an equal amount of force torwards tha car. Given the connection between the car and the magnet is stiff, these opposing forces will stress the connection and create a reactive force in there according to Newtens 3rd law, ultimatly canseling the forces out and neither the car nor the magnet will move.

If you however remove the stiff connection, the car and the magnet will move torwards each other untill they meet.

permalink
report
reply
10 points

what if you just attach a second magnet to the car so that it pulls the first magnet forwards?

permalink
report
parent
reply
23 points

Then you have the same mechanism used in toy wood trains.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points
*

How about if you launch a huge magnet well above escape velocity and remotely anchor a space elevator made from a ferromagnetic material to it but the space elevator’s weight counteracts its inertia exactly and holds it in place perpetually. Would that work?

Edit: I swear I’m not dumb, I just didn’t think this one through.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

It needs to rotate unless it’s a superconductor.

Also a magnet that size would mess up navigation equipment for miles

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Give us a chance to practice using our sextant collection tho

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

gee, you must be fun at parties (/s if it weren’t obvious enough)

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Would that be at the hing of the arm? Where would the event horizon or epicenter be of that?

permalink
report
parent
reply

Science Memes

!science_memes@mander.xyz

Create post

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don’t throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

Community stats

  • 13K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.4K

    Posts

  • 84K

    Comments