A New Way to Push

Post Date: December 21, 2006

Firm: Not Yet Inc.

Website: www.newlifter.com

Contact: Paul Jacoby (e-mail Paul here for more information)

Preferred Region or State of Student: St. Louis Metro Area / Illinois / any technical school

Project Description: Engineering analysis of a machine intended to produce a motive force by reducing an opposing force already present. A drawing is available on the web sight along with explanation and patent link and spread sheets in MS EXCEL format.

CAUTION
This project has been analyzed by two other Universities and found unfavorable.

The first was Rolla Mo. and they decided that any force developed could not move the container because it would be inside and Newton requires an external force. This shows that they did not understand Newton's law. An external force means a second body with a velocity. Force is mass times velocity so the body causing movement must not be any part of the body at rest else it would have no velocity.

The second attempt was done by Southern Illinois University and was poorly done. It did show a spread sheet with the largest force of 2.4 pounds at 180 feet per second (124 mi/hr) on all three velocities but it made no comparison with standard type propellers. A reverences is on my web sight to propeller test showing one 13 x 8 propeller to produce 2.9 pounds.

• No effort was made to pressurize the container to increase the force.
• No effort was made to test at greater densities such as water.
• No effort was made to determine the value of "non contributing forces".

The conclusion was that the lift generated would be reduced to zero by "non contributing forces". How does he subtract something he doesn't know from something he does know and make a conclusion? I don't know how to do that kind of math.

Skills needed: Spread sheets are already available on my web site. Analyze them to see if the formulas are correct. Check the logic for each thought. Using a computed flow dynamics program analysis calculate the flow and pressures developed. Speculate as to the maximum size and power potential.