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TheWillRogers
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Hello, My name is willis, and I am new to these forums, I am just about to finish up my second term of high school physics.
And I may or may not be posting this in the right forum, sorry if it's not.
Last term when we learned about centrifugal force, using it to create artificial gravity, I had an idea for a space station that would rotate to creat gravity, after some lookign into it I stumbled across the Stanford-Torres, which seemed novel to me, but used old tech. So my little mind went to work.
I had also just got done watching somehting on history about magnents, and the Maglev Trains. It occured to me that having a station controlled by magnents would be pretty cool. so i drafted up a design(The design is not with me, it's at home i'll scan it in later and post it.)
It's basically a track that has a diameter of 1km, with karts attached on the outside, propelled on a rail at the proper speed to reach a centrifugal force of 9.81m/s, i believe the math was either 1 or 2 RPM. the magnets would be electric, so using controlers you would be able to kill the power to them, allow a cart to stop, and add a new cart to the station, expanding for living space, a new lab, or maybe even a shuttle parking lot.
I know this was a shotty post at best, but I would like to know your guys' ideas on this.
And I may or may not be posting this in the right forum, sorry if it's not.
Last term when we learned about centrifugal force, using it to create artificial gravity, I had an idea for a space station that would rotate to creat gravity, after some lookign into it I stumbled across the Stanford-Torres, which seemed novel to me, but used old tech. So my little mind went to work.
I had also just got done watching somehting on history about magnents, and the Maglev Trains. It occured to me that having a station controlled by magnents would be pretty cool. so i drafted up a design(The design is not with me, it's at home i'll scan it in later and post it.)
It's basically a track that has a diameter of 1km, with karts attached on the outside, propelled on a rail at the proper speed to reach a centrifugal force of 9.81m/s, i believe the math was either 1 or 2 RPM. the magnets would be electric, so using controlers you would be able to kill the power to them, allow a cart to stop, and add a new cart to the station, expanding for living space, a new lab, or maybe even a shuttle parking lot.
I know this was a shotty post at best, but I would like to know your guys' ideas on this.