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08/13/2008 5:21 AM

if i fix two magnets facing opposite sides each other on a small toy car then that car

can run or not.

if no then why

if yes then how

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08/13/2008 5:28 AM

Hello howrang bajaj

There are dozens of reasons why that car may run.

Likewise there are dozens of equally valid reasons why that car may not run.

You do not even state what the word "Run" means in your Question:

  1. Do you mean the wheels turn around?
  2. Do you mean it will run off the table?
  3. Do you mean the car engine will run?
  4. More possibilities, based on meaning in context of your Question, of the word: Run.

You have given a pair of questions which are entirely open-ended, poorly specified, and in the form of your questions, if completely answered, may require a rather large set of books, for the full and proper answers to all the various possibilities.

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08/13/2008 5:37 AM

means after fixing magnet on that toy if i place that toy on ground that car will start running on the ground without any engine.

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08/13/2008 5:52 AM

Hello again, howrang bajaj

There are still dozens of alternatives, for both yes and no.

Reform your Questions, the last four of yours in particular, because you have not correctly thought out much at all, as the questions are so unspecific.

I have spent some unrecoverable amount of my lifespan, trying to assist you.

I do understand English is not your first language, or if English is your first language, your age appears to be around 6 years old.

I do not intend that you be insulted, as I always try and help people, who are genuine.

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08/13/2008 8:16 AM

I just had a horrible vision of walking into a magnet producing company and all the magnets were chasing each other. Gotta drink less wine at night!

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08/14/2008 5:29 AM

You're a Bloody Legend.

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08/13/2008 9:03 AM

If the two magnets are allowed to move away or towards each other. The independent movement can be converted to circular movement. this will surely have toy moving until the limits of the slide is reached.

A rubber band or a spring will have the same effect.

Please post a picture or sketch of your toy.

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08/13/2008 12:55 PM

For each action there is an equal and opposite reaction. They will equalize and cancel each other out If they are fixed and unable to move. this would be the same under attraction or repulsion.

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08/13/2008 3:24 PM

The answer is no. For more information as to why this is the case, refer back to elementary magnetism theory and principles.

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08/14/2008 12:39 AM

no, as the magnet will be fitted onto the car and not the wheels of the toy car. Cancelling any induce force on the car as a whole. instead the magnets will repel and parts that the magnets are attached to will either bend or be forced off

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08/14/2008 1:11 AM

School Science project?

Your using the magnets for propulsion?

What is the motivator for pulling or pushing the magnetic field/wave?

are you running the magnets along a type of wave guide so as the car approaches the magnets pull, and as the car passes the magnets switch to repel (mass accelerator)

are you using the magnets to connect to another car, and the front/back is the driving force, while the magnets are just used for coupling.

The question seems more like a school assignment that your supposed to ratify yourself in your own words, if it sounds like whats written here, don't forget that your examiners possibly have Internet access too, and your question here will be shown on Google web search in the next few hours.

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08/14/2008 1:21 AM

What size and strength are these magnets?

What size is the car?

How do you propose to mount these magnets to cause the desired motion?

What school are you attending?

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08/14/2008 7:42 AM

If I am reading your question correctly, you are asking if the phenomenon of opposite poles repelling will cause the car to move. If that is so, the answer is "No". The opposing poles of the two magnets will, indeed, repel against each other, but there is nothing that this opposition can act against to move the car. If, for instance, one magnet was attached to a wall, and the opposing magnet attached to the back of the car, placing the car against the wall-attached magnet and releasing it will send the car away from the wall, of course. But without a "reference" against which the magnet can "push" the car will remain motionless.

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08/14/2008 9:08 AM

If your magnets are placed this way:

The car will move away until it gets out of range of the magnet on the wall and/or friction or some other object stops its movement.

If your magnets are arranged this way:

Then, no, the car will not move.

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08/16/2008 3:34 AM

thank you very much.

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08/14/2008 9:27 AM

if won of the magnits is heaveir and has stronger radiation pattern then its field wave will push the other one at an acceleration equal to 2/3∏ΩΔ8xλ

when it gets where its going then it will stop.

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08/14/2008 12:41 PM

But it will go nowhere if the two magnets are both fastened to the same object. The difference in strength has no bearing if there is nothing to push against. See 6 and 7 .

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08/14/2008 12:42 PM

Excuse me. Got ahead of myself. See 12 and 13.

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08/15/2008 3:26 PM

You have GOT to be joking ! ! ! Did u really think that post was serious? You were supposed to go "har , Har, HAR!"

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08/16/2008 10:30 AM

You're probably right. I get going and I don't know when to stop. Must be the magnets.

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08/17/2008 1:53 AM

Hello The Commoner

Watch out for those magnets.

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08/17/2008 11:44 AM

Thanks a lot sparky!!!!

You put those damn magnets on my screen and now all I had was a white blob in the middle. I had to go out and get a LCD to replace my old CRT!!

Curses!

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08/17/2008 6:44 AM

It would be very easy to make a toy car that will move (or not) when magnets are inserted.

All that is required is for one magnet to be fixed to a base and the other one on a slide below the base through a slot or two.

The drive mechanism can be something like the shaft of a pump screw driver.

when the end of the stroke is reached all that is required for is to flip one of the magnets. (or take them out and put it back the other way)

The toy can be used to convince gullible people to invest in a MPS co. (Magnetic Propulsion Scheme).

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08/18/2008 1:57 AM

Actually, in the late 70's early 80's there was a model of a maglev train that ran on a flat track, trying to remember, but it was a interesting little toy ;o)

Also, Wayyyy back when the original movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was the following line.

"Tomorrow, I'll tell you about trains that don't run on tracks" - Guessing Mag-Lev

Not sure if that will be referanced in the more modern version of this show.

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08/18/2008 9:08 AM

If you set up a nice track with pulse generators you could run it with a Linear-Induction-Motor! Just add plates to the side of the car.

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08/18/2008 11:08 PM

If you setup a straight track, you could shoot it out the window to a suitable target on the back fence of your yard

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