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From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
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Subject: Homopolar generators/conservation of angular momentum -- how?
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Date: 12 Apr 90 04:38:32 GMT
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Okay, so a homopolar generator stops in 1/3rd rotation.  Where did the
angular momentum go?  Surely it didn't exit via the axle.  Surely it
didn't exit (mechanically) via the (as I understand it) diametrically
opposing brushes.

Signed -- confused in Minnesota.

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