Re: Artificial Horizon.
Subject: Re: Artificial Horizon.
From: E.R.Kooi (E.R.Kooi@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 14:25:15 EST
If you were right not a single electric motor or generator would work.
When you move copper in an magnetic field it generates a current, which
creates heat and dissipates energy. This requires power and that how a
counter force is created with the dampening effect.
Fr. gr. Eppo R. Kooi.
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> [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX]Namens Jared Sherman
> Verzonden: maandag 01-apr-02 20:31
> <As the mirror tilted, the copper strip moved in the
> field of a small rare earth magnet fixed to the sextant frame, and so
> damped the movement.>
>
> Am I the only one here to wonder how this worked? Copper is
> non-magnetic, regardless of the magnet you used a simple copper
> strip would not be affected by it.
