Re: Weight Loss
Bill McMurtry ( weber@powerup.com.au )
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:46:23 +1000
At 03:07 28/01/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Bill!
>
>Bill wrote;
>> ...<snip>...On a set of scales the weight of the spinning mass system
>> can be made to reduce OR increase.
>
>You bring up three good points, specifically;
>
> windage - the effect air would have where the thing acted like a fan,
> blowing air down or up (measure both ways to get a +/- number)
>
> twisting of a fabric string (switch to monofilament fishing line)
>
> creep of possible linear friction or jitter that could distort the
> measurement (should average out in a slow scale response)
>--
>Hi Jerry!!
My experience with the Laithwaite lift demonstration using, amongst other
things, a bicycle wheel spun up to a goodly rpm on the end of a 3 foot long
pole provided forces strongly felt. These gyroscopic forces were definately
not the result of air blowing up or down, nor were they vibrational in any
way. Try it.
Bill.