Re: The new wheel

[John Schutkeker <jschutkeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:2Zdlh.286860$FQ1.157987
@attbi_s71:

> gdewilde@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I was thinking about this:
>> 
>> http://gabydewilde.googlepages.com/the-new-wheel
>> 
>> Would it work? Could we put that on cars and bikes?
> 
>    How is that any better that putting a small wheel on
>    the front of one's bicycle so that one is always going
>    down hill?

As you observed, it's a perpetual motion machine.  You should be able to 
set up the integral that will show that the force to the right is cancelled 
by the force to the left, but you probably can't do the integral. :(