Re: The new wheel

[Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Schutkeker wrote:
> 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. :(

  Vector algebra suffices