Re: The new wheel

[John Schutkeker <jschutkeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> 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

You're right.  Some of the angles look a little awkward to me, but it's 
all geometry.  One of us should publish the debunkery.