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From: choke3860@ttardis.UUCP (S Patrick Gallaty)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: magnetic propulsion
Message-ID: <2010@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 23:46:28 GMT
Organization: RTI (Real Time Incorporated)
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Summary: magnetic gauss projectile


	Hello, my name is S Patrick Gallaty and I am currently working on
an experiment.  Some friends and I came up with an amusing possibility
for a method of motivating an object along a gauss 'wave.'
	Imagine a tube of some length with adjoining coils that surround
it along it's entire length. Each coil is ganged together with a number of
other coils to produce a number of circuits (4, 8?) that are each some degree
out of sync with one another.
	The entire electro-mechanism is fed by a voltage-controlled-oscillator
that compensates for the accelleration of the object within the tube to provide
maximum contribution of effort.
	If someone would be so kind as to point us in the right direction as
to the formulas involved, or work that has been done in the past along these
lines, we would be highly appreciative.


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