User:Ali.bhatti223/ENES-100/project 1

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Week0 Preferences
EM transport

Week1 Narrative
''After talking to the group about EM transport, I was told that the general idea that we were going to work with was that of a coil gun. With this information I began to look up information about coil guns. During this week I attempted to understand coil guns for our EM transport mechanism. the main two types of coil gun setups I found on wikipedia was the single and multi stage coilgun. I looked into what understanding of this was important. important things to understand would include ferromagnetic projectiles, switching, resistance, ferromagnetic projectile saturation and projectile magnetization and reaction times. so that is what I looked into.--Ali.bhatti223 (discuss • contribs) 22:04, 14 March 2013 (UTC) would include Link to my Conceive

Week2 Narrative
'The next thing that I worked on was understanding ball and track interaction. I suspected that friction would be the thing to look in so that is exactly what I did. reaseaching friction on wikipedia, I found that there are different types of friction and these types would be: dry friction, fluid friction, lubricated friction, skin friction and internal friction. I assumed that dry and lubricated friction would be the main types with fluid following. I decided to think of dry friction fist and the first thing that came to mind was " may we should maximize static friction'', but this idea was soon to be destroyed by another thought in mind, that thought would be that the force acting on the ball would not act in a way such that there would be an initial torque, so it could not be analogous to the tire and concrete interaction I had in mind, in which it would be ideal to increase friction to prevent sliding friction. In this case of getting the ball rolling so to speak, it would need to get sliding first and maximizing the friction would there by increase the necessary energy to get the thing moving which is certainly not what we wanted. This would in turn require that we have stronger electromagnet. which happened to be another problem of ours.--Ali.bhatti223 (discuss • contribs) 22:18, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Week3 Narrative
''this time around I was trying to understand how the magnetic field interacted with the metal ball. This soon led to me trying to understand magnetic fields in general, which soon narrowed into magnetic field around a solenoid. I learned that the magnetic field lines are parallel with the axis of the solenoid and that around the solenoid it is circular and weaker as a result, since it is not very far reaching. In my physics book i read that tightly coiled solenoids are something like a dipole magnet and also that the ideal solenoid is long in comparison to it's diameter. ''

Week4 Narrative
looked into the interaction between steel on pvc and found that the static friction coefficient is .53 and the kinetic is .38.