Question How many RPMs will this wheel trun?
Can someone tell me "if" there was an overbalanced wheel, and this wheel was 10 feet tall. The weight on the overbalanced side was forever 2300 pounds and the weight on the opposite side stayed forever weighing 700 pounds. How many RP Ms would this wheel turn? At the rate of a falling object? 10 mts per second per second?

Best Answer mts, I guess means meters. mts is NOT an abbreviation for meter. 10 m/s² is an acceleration not a velocity, so that is not correct. But the answer is depends on the friction and other drag type forces. The wheel, if it had a force causing it to rotate, would accelerate until the friction forces equaled the forces causing it to rotate. BUT I don't think that would happen. The 2300 lb force is straight down, so it will not cause any wheel rotation. From what you say, it is always straight down, so it can never cause any rotation. .

Question I make a Free Energy Machine. What should I do ?
My Free Energy Machine is a kind of overbalanced wheel. It can work 24 x 7. Any time, any where, in the world. No fuel, air, sun, water, magnet... required.

Best Answer I think you need to take at least one physics class.

Question pepetual motion notion.?
to be considered perpetual motion, would the devise have to run without an external input of energy "forever", or untill the parts of such devise simply wore out? I know im gonna catch some heat for this, but, i think its possible. possible by using 2 constant forces complimenting the others role. 1. gravity 2. magnets ,, i wish i could draw on here, this theory has haunted me for years. overbalancing a farriswheel by using the polarity of a stationary magnet to "push" the reciprocating closer to the center of the wheel , decreasing the energy needed to ascend that is being provided by the descending magnets that were extended to the end of the lever by springs after leaving the magnetic field. HELP reciprocating magnets...typo i know its been deemed impossible, but so was alot of things before someone did them. flight, space travel, trveling faster than your horse could run, depending on the time frame you wish to consider

Best Answer Gravity travels at the speed of light and is therefore inescapable. The force of gravity would eventually cause your device to quit moving. This might be an eternity but it would eventually stop. Sorry, but no arrangement of magnets and gravity will result in a perpetual motion device. The only thing you might ever consider a perpetual motion device is the entire universe itself and that in itself is debatable.

Question Is there a formula that I can use w\ a water wheel & generator that would tell gallons p\ minutes to kilowatts?


Best Answer You can get a rough idea from the head of the water and the flow. Lets say for a small one, the flow is 20l/s (that is 5.28 US gallons at 3.7854 liters to the US gallon). Make the head (the distance the water falls to/through the turbine = 3m. First convert the flow per second to mass: 1 liter is 1kg close enough. There are 20kg/s Now calculate the power produced. Power_W = (Mass_kg x Gravity_m/s/s x Height_m) / time_s = (20kg x 9.8m/s/s x 3m) / 1s = 588W. Allow for the generator is 80% efficient and the water wheel (including gears) is 50% efficient: P = 0.8 x 0.5 x 588W = 235W Energy produced in one hour = 235W x 1h = 235 Wh. Lets look at a bigger one: Assume 1000l/s, 50m head P = 1000 x 9.8m/s/s x 50m/1 = 490,000W Allowing better efficiency at this size, 90% for generator and 75% for turbine/gears etc. P = 490kW x 0.9 x 0.75 = 330kW Energy in one hour = 330kWh. The link below shows some calculations for the size and efficiency of a water wheel, and how to convert velocity into head. Note that the essential gearbox is likely to be only 50% efficient depending on the ratio. Turbines like propellers can increase the RPM, so potentially the efficiency is higher if for no other reason than the gear ratio is less.

Question How can I connect a wooden water wheel to a bicycle generator to produce electricity?
Please help me. We planned to make our science investigastory project - "water turbine". Our problem is, how can we connect the water wheel to a bicycle generator? please help us bec. we have no idea. Anothewr problem is - how can we connect the socket to the bicycle generator to hav electricity? ty-

Best Answer A belt drive would work. You will need to run the generator faster than the water wheel; that can be done with two pulleys and a belt.

Question water wheel generator designs ?
how does a water wheel (the kind you see that picks up water and causes motion)work . my basic design is to have a mini water wheel with a spoke in the middle attached to a gear that moves another gear turning the main generator rod to produce electricity

Best Answer There are two basic kinds of water wheel. The first kind is a paddle wheel that has it's bottom edge dipped into flowing water that doesn't really change level. The second kind is a bucket wheel. On this the water comes out of a spout at the top of the wheel. The change in elevation means more energy is transferred per amount of water. Power plants use a type of turbine, essentially a fan in a tube of water.

Question How is perpetual motion related to anti-gravity?
On another question some claimed that an anti-gravity machine would require perpetual motion. I would like to know why and/or how.

Best Answer it wouLdn't but a perpetual motion machine might require anti-gravity, or atleast very LittLe gravity

Question Would it be possible to achieve perpetual motion in space (no gravity or friction)?
To my knowledge, the problems with achieving perpetual motion on Earth are friction and gravity. The friction takes energy away from the object by resisting motion, and gravity takes away energy by pulling objects toward each other. Since space is a vacuum, there would be no air resistance or other friction. Also there would no gravity in distant space, as there would be no other objects to influence it. So then it seems possible that in space, such perpetual motion, and theoretically unlimited energy, is possible to achieve. Any thoughts?

Best Answer The problem is that the term 'perpetual motion' has changed its meaning somewhat. It has come to mean a system from which you can extract energy without having to put energy into that system. There's no particular (Newtonian) objection to the idea of shooting an object off into deep space with as much kinetic energy as you care to give it and expecting it to keep going. The trouble is that if you try to use any of that energy, then *you* are the thing 'influencing' it and slowing it down. There's no unlimited energy there I'm afraid.

Question Perpetual Motion? Gravity? Myself and someone who can't speak english very well want to know!?
So surfing along here I came along this unreadable question from someone whose first language wouldn't be English. But, bless him, he tried anyways, and this is what he wrote: "Why cant gravity apple? if you had an apple with a straw n you poked the apple though wit it and a pebble hadnt dropped through itd stop straw inside the apple ebcause gravity cant apple but why????" What I think he is trying to ask is: if you put a straw through an apple, dropped a pebble through the straw, thus through the apple, then why don't you see apple's gravity exert itself on the apple? Well, I think we all know the earth ruins that little experiment. But MY question isn't all that different. It's just on a little more grand of a scale. When I was a wee kid, my idea on using gravity for perpetual motion was the same, except I used thought of using the Earth (the apple), now drill a hole to the other side (simple enough, eh, probably should stay away from the core though) then drop something like a ping-pong ball (feel free to get creative here I'm going with a ping-pong ball, you can go with what you like e.g old 'free AOL discs'). And for sake of discussion, let us just say, in our drilled hole, we have stuck a super neat tube, which stop the effects of heat and make sure the ping pong ball doesn't hit the sides and sticks out of the Earth farther than terminal velocity will take it, might as suck out all the air of the tube to make it a vacuum. Now what happens? Is it like what I thought when I was a kid? The ball is dropped in the tube, Earth's gravity pulls the object down, there is no place the object to "land" so it would continue to gather speed. Now as it reaches the middle of Earth gravity doesn't just reach out and grab it holding the ball still...right?, wouldn't it just continue on in the tube (as has energy from it's journey down) until it pops out the other runs out energy from it's 'fall' then 'fall' again? The real question I suppose how would gravity effect this object overtime in this scenario. I asked a physics teacher this at school, but was scoffed for having a silly idea, on a fools dream. He was building my character or was being a giant a$$ Just wanted to thank those who have thrown answers out there. Obviously, I didn't expect someone to pop on say, "Eureka! I have solved the problem with some simple calculations." But even better just to get some intelligent minds exchanging ideas. With myself, getting to read about it first hand. :D Great answers so far everyone.

Best Answer "The Laws of Thermodynamics do NOT forbid "Perpetual Motion," Things can move forever AS LONG AS THEY DO NO WORK. Orbits of planets, moons, stars, etc. are all examples. If you had a perfect vacuum and the pebble did NOT touch the sides, it would move back and forth forever. Add air resistance, the pebble does work against the air, loses energy and finally stops at the center of the earth." That is a great answer! But the planets do "do work" in the solar system. It is gravity and centrifugal/centripital/angular velocities forces at play, and magnetics as well. But this energy to keep the planets where they are seems to go on and on for ever. That is the mystery of perpetual motion. Not just frictionless environments for bodies to move in. Everything moving has to have energy, it MUST! even in vacuum, there is energy present to allow for things to move. It's about dimensions and dimensional physics. The question is where is this energy coming from and that's what our modern physics FAIL to explain...that is because we are not evolved far enough in our universal/natural understandings. We will be soon, hopefully.

Question How do perpetual motion watches work?
I was just looking at Rolex watches, and they have the self-winding mechanisms. How do those work? I know it's movement that winds the watch, but is there a spring inside, or a bettery that gets charged, or what?

Best Answer There is a weight mounted off-balance on a shaft so that it hangs down. It has a one-way ratchet connected to a reduction gear so that motion in one direction winds the spring. In the other direction the shaft just turns freely. As you move about, walking, running, gesturing, whatever, your wrist moves back and forth. As your wrist changes position the weight causes the shaft to turn and the ratchet captures the motion to wind the main spring.

Question How did they manage to make it look like they achieved perpetual motion in this video?
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=CA#/watch?v=oJv58SXx2V8 I know that perpetual motion is impossible, but I can't figure out how they managed to make it look like they created perpetual motion in this video. Do you know how they did it?

Best Answer any number of ways. perpetual motion has been shown to be impossible under the known laws of physics video fakes are so easy you cannot believe anything you see

Question Is it possible to make a perpetual motion machine keep on running without stopping?
I had this idea when I was looking at a pocket watch design how it doesn't use no electricity just gears and springs to keep the hands moving to help tell time. Can a perpetual motion machine be possible?

Best Answer No. It would break the laws of physics. Anyone who tries to tell you differently wants to sell you something.

Question where is leonardo DaVinci reverse handwriting manuscript that talks about perpetual motion wheels located?


Best Answer Its in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. London being the operative word if your question actually relates to the Google quest......... :-)

Question Which city is "Leonardo's reversed handwriting manuscript on perpetual motion wheels" located in?


Best Answer London, England

Question da vinci manuscript perpetual motion wheels--where is it located?


Best Answer Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Question Why are perpetual motion machines impossible?
How can it be impossible? I have an idea that involves a water wheel and it keeps going in a circle. If I had the right equipment, I would build it but I don't so I would like to know HOW it is impossible. How is it impossible to make a machine machine NEVER stops going? I mean, If you use water and do it right, then the machine won't stop, so HOW?

Best Answer If you are thinking about hydro-electric power or the "drinking bird"...both of these may appear to be the perpetual motion machine. However, both of them depend on nature's power cycle to operate, which involves evaporation of water caused by the sun, condensation of water vapor into droplets, and rain. The drinking bird will continue its repeated motion as the water dries off its head. Once fully dry, the bird will take a dunk in the dish and absorb water. When the dish is fully empty, or the background begins to fog (which ever comes first), this will no longer be a perpetual motion machine.

Question Pond Pump?????????????
We are considering adding a garden to our backyard, and we understand we need a pump. The place where we want the pond is too far away from the house to be grid powered. We considered solar and wind powered pumps, but we don't have enough sun or wind. I was wondering if there is a working perpetual machine, such as a perpetual water wheel. If so, can u send me a picture/video. THANKS!!!

Best Answer Sorry, no such thing exists. You could always put in a gas powered generator but in the end you might just be better off finding a way to run AC power out to the area where the pond is to be located.

Question Would this be a good idea for perpetual motion?
I got this idea while studying about water clocks -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Gitton --. Basically I want to run a siphon system over a water-wheel: Take an open water tank (Tank A) filled with a reasonable amount of water, then raise an air-tight tank (Tank B) over the other. Tank B should have a spout of some kind to let water flow out, as well as a hose leading into Tank A to allow water to flow in. If the spout on Tank B let water fall into Tank A, then the motion of water would continue forever, right? So if you were to place a water-wheel under the spout, you could use it to power other things. ... If that wouldn't be classified as perpetual motion due to evaporating water, could you substitute something oily instead?

Best Answer No, this would not be an example of perpetual motion due to the counter-effects of gravity. If Tank A is lower than Tank B, it will take more energy to raise the water back into Tank B than you would gain from the motion of the water wheel. Thus, your system is losing energy during the process. You could get it to run for a long time with a large enough tank, but eventual entropy wins and the system will stop. Even if you wanted to dedicate 100% of the energy generated by the water wheel to a pump to push the water back up into Tank B, the amount of energy generated in the water wheel is less than the energy necessary to move the equal volume of liquid back into the elevated tank. Energy would be lost by the friction of the water particles as they fell through the air, the loss of energy to heat as the water droplets impacted the blades of the water wheel, the loss of energy to heat and friction as the water wheel spins on its axel, etc. Unfortunately, a practical perpetual motion machine just isn't possible in an environment where friction and gravity exert an influence. Hope that makes sense!

Question can u make a perpetual motion machine with magnets?


Best Answer Here are a few working examples:- 1. The drinking bird toy (the energy comes from small ambient temperature gradients and evaporation, and harnessing the small power output would likely disrupt the working cycle). 2. A capillarity based water pump: in this case, energy would again come from small ambient temperature gradients and vapour pressure differences, although it would be far too easy for the pump to stop functioning. 3. A Crookes radiometer, a partial vacuum glass container with a lightweight propeller moved by (light-induced) temperature gradients. 4. Any device picking minimal amounts of energy from the electromagnetic radiation around it. Some modern smart labels (RFID chips) actually work based on that principle, using the same electromagnetic field used for "reading" them as their powersource. 5. In the Atmos clock the vapor pressure of ethyl chloride changes with temperature and winds up the clock spring.

Question would a perpetual motion machine run with magnets be of any value?


Best Answer Perpetual motion machines are defined basically as self contained contraptions that use and produce energy needed. In theory this sounds plausible. So far it has been impossible to build a perpetual motion machine, and many have tried through many years. It's a holy grail. My grandpa tried for many years to build a bottle wheel that added just the right amount of water to each bottle that would spin the wheel down. The water would evaporate at a given rate and be replenished by a drip method when the bottle came back around. Interesting idea if you consider it, but it is not self contained and would have to be attended to. Modern technology has advanced where many of the problems for such a machine seem possible. Energy is said to exist as it is forever, but how do you channel energy as it transforms and disperses. Yet energy remains as it is and was. Ponder. Try wheels within wheels using the laws of physics?

Question I need some blueprints/pictures of some perpetual motion machines that are powered by strong magnets. Help?
I am doing a science fair project on perpetual motion and free energy. The problem is, I am unable to uncover any pictures that are helpful. They must be of a perpetual motion machine that is powered by magnets, but it can't be powered by electromagnets. If you can find some please just post the link below.

Best Answer A lot of people seem to use the latin term "perpetuum mobile", so you might find that a useful search term as well. When I used that search term I found this very nice historic web page. http://www.hp-gramatke.net/perpetuum/index.htm Look around there, I assure you magnets are mentioned. Lots of diagrams too.

Question What would be the point of a perpetual motion machine?
Lets say that someone invents a perpetual motion machine. One that is possibly realistic and is 100 percent efficient. What could you possible use it for other than possibly as a battery but even then the transfer from the machine to the outside world would come at a cost of efficiency, since if you take any energy out of it it will promptly stop being a perpetual motion machine. So then why do people try to create them when even if you could make one it would be pretty much useless.

Best Answer If you had the use of a perpetual motion machine you could increase the energy deficit that is created by other attempts to harvest energy sources. The reason a perpetual motion machine doesn't exist at this point is because of friction and gravity. These two, if eliminated, could allow for much more efficient machinery. A gasoline-driven vehicle, even, would see an efficiency increase of over 50%. It would cut down on energy costs, fuel consumption, and wear-and-tear on machined parts.

Question How does a perpetual motion machine reverse entropy or time?
I know it's not possible but, if you built a perpetual motion machine how would it reverse entropy or time? How would the process go about? negative comments aren't allowed. Please provide good sources and info. Thank you.

Best Answer In the mid 1800s, the concept of the perpetual motion machine became fashionable. Basically, it is a machine that when once started, will continue to produce useful work with no further addition of or input of additional energy. The US patent office was overwhelmed with patent applications for such machines, and there were a lot of hard feelings and wasting of time and energy in the arguing over the rejection of all of these patent applications. Until the US patent director had a brainstorm. He started requiring all applicants to submit a functioning working model. Patent applications for perpetual motion machines dropped to ZERO!! This is because they are impossible(duh). You simply cannot continue to extract useful work from something that requires no additional energy input. Energy is a commodity like water or copper or oxygen or anything else. All so-called perpetual motion machines will run down and stop. You can't make a bottle that gives an unlimited supply of water; you can't make an oil well that gives an unlimited supply of gasoline, and you can't make a car that goes forever without adding any additional fuel to the gas tank. It is stupid to think that you can. Even the Sun will burn out some day.

Question How can there be no such thing as a perpetual motion machine?
Theoretically, it sounds so simple, but in reality, it is increasingly difficult. Why? And why is creating a "close-to-perpetual-motion" machine so damn easy? I said creating a "close-to-perpetual-motion" machine was easy. I never said creating an actual perpetual motion machine was easy.

Best Answer Creating a perpetual motion machine is easy........ provided you have an infinite supply of energy, (which is obviously impossible......) Thermodynamics says that (except on a subatomic scale,) no physical process can be 100% energy efficient. That means that without an *external source of energy*, friction, and other internal processes will eventually bring the activity of any machine to a halt, no matter the circumstances. This would still be true, even if it were possible to completely eliminate friction, such as levitating a magnet over a superconductor in a vacuum. In a more abstract sense, the second law of thermodynamics says that the amount of "entropy" in any self contained system can only *increase*, never decrease. Exactly what "entropy" is, is hard to define in in colloquial terms, but it can be variously described as "disorder", "chaos", or "homogeneousness." Thus, any "organized motion" within a machine, must eventually be all converted into "disorganized motion".........i.e. heat. Hope that makes sense, ~W.O.M.B.A.T.

Question Is Free energy possible and probable. Does any perpetual motion machines exist?
I have read about and seen machines that appear generate more useable energy than they consumer. Some are magnetic and produce electricity and or mechanical energy, some are wheels and some employ leverage and gravity. I see no real reason why some of these technologies can not be exploited. I mean are we really condemned to use only heat for a nonrenewable source to generate affordable energy althought, becoming unaffordable rapidly.?

Best Answer Ok...so you got the answers you would have expected But just think for a moment...everything we know of is in perpetual motion (at least as long as matters in our lives) 1) The electrons of your body 2) Our earth around the sun 3) Molecules of water in the ocean 4) And on and on and on My real challenge to all would be to find something that is not moving...including it's parts... So you are exactly right when you see no reason that the technologies can't be exploited! Energy is everywhere and abundant...you just have to find the best ways to tap into it (remember even a coal fire power plant is tapping into what used to be the energy of the sun).

Question Do you agree with Stephen Hawking?Did God create Universe or did it create itself?
Heres what different sections of society think about his views... What do you think ? Shiraz Minwalla, Theoretical Physicist, TIFR The bar is set really high for saying that you know what exactly happened. I wouldn’t speculate about how the universe was created. What we do know, from observation and according to the laws of physics, is that about 13.6 billion years ago the universe was very small. You can think of it in terms of a movie running backwards. The laws of physics apply for the length of the movie. But at the end of that period, when everything ends very near to the point we call the Big Bang, our ignorance takes over. Roughly, to start with, there was a lot of space-time. One theory for which there is increasing evidence suggests that there was initially a small bubble of space and time, which expanded exponentially fast. Christianity: The Bible presents the creation of the universe in seven days. In six days, He creates the elements, the environment, the animal kingdom and lastly but not least humans. On the seventh day, God rests. Fr Savio Fernandes, Spokesperson, Archdiocese of Mumbai, says Stephen Hawking is using Physics to explain God, who can be explained only through metaphysics. He says the law of gravity can explain scientific phenomenon. Where does the law of gravity come from? There has to be an originator. Hinduism: Existence is cyclical. The cosmos represents only one turn in the perpetual 'wheel of time'. The Universe expands for a period of time. It is made of eight elements – earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and ego. It is out of God's desire and his will that the other elements manifest themselves. Chaitanya Charan Das, ISKCON: Hawking assumes that the laws of nature existed before the universe. He simply substitutes God with the laws of physics. Our experience shows that laws need an organising intelligence. Islam: Allah created the universe and earth in six days though each of these days could represent months or years, how many is not specified. The Quran says Allah created everything: the solar system, the earth, the sun, the sky and life. Maulana Zaheer Abbas Rizvi, Secretary, All India Shia Personal Law Board: Even if we agree with Hawking that our world was created by the big bang, where did those elements responsible for this phenomenon originate? Everything we see around us is created either by human beings or by God. The Quran has proof that Allah created everything. Jainism: The universe has existed since infinity and has no beginning or end. Everything on this planet – from a drop of water, to the greenery, to the mountains – has a life of its own. Atul Shah, Jainism scholar: I fully agree with Hawking’s theory that god has not created this universe or the earth. We are the authors of our destiny and can achieve salvation only by looking into our own souls. Science is an infant while religion is an Olympics gold medallist. What do you think ?? http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?page=article§id=2&contentid=2010090420100904020434356e89cd2b

Best Answer God created the universe and time. God is eternal. Assuming the theory of evolution to be a fact, not a faith, and assuming the universe created itself (from what, where, how?) are all assumptions including the assumption of time as always present.

Question pepetual motion notion.?
to be considered perpetual motion, would the devise have to run without an external input of energy "forever", or untill the parts of such devise simply wore out? I know im gonna catch some heat for this, but, i think its possible. possible by using 2 constant forces complimenting the others role. 1. gravity 2. magnets ,, i wish i could draw on here, this theory has haunted me for years. overbalancing a farriswheel by using the polarity of a stationary magnet to "push" the reciprocating closer to the center of the wheel , decreasing the energy needed to ascend that is being provided by the descending magnets that were extended to the end of the lever by springs after leaving the magnetic field. HELP reciprocating magnets...typo i know its been deemed impossible, but so was alot of things before someone did them. flight, space travel, trveling faster than your horse could run, depending on the time frame you wish to consider

Best Answer Gravity travels at the speed of light and is therefore inescapable. The force of gravity would eventually cause your device to quit moving. This might be an eternity but it would eventually stop. Sorry, but no arrangement of magnets and gravity will result in a perpetual motion device. The only thing you might ever consider a perpetual motion device is the entire universe itself and that in itself is debatable.