The mysterious Unipolar Dynamo, so simple that even the earth's core has one, so powerful that it forges metal alloy billets and launches a rail gun! This handbook has all the history, operating principles, practical construction details, and pictures of Faraday disk/unipolar/homopolar generators. Investigating the Paulsen UFO story and the DePalma claims of overunity, the author began an earnest scientific endeavour in 1980 to build and test a homopolar generators (HPG) for the elusive 'back torque' which had never been measured before in a one-piece HPG. This project helped to complete his Master's Degree in Physics at SUNY Buffalo. What does the torque push against when the magnet spins with the disk? How can the back torque or armature reaction be diminished or counteracted? These and other burning questions are answered in the only book of its kind on the subject of homopolar generators.
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This book contains the references for homopolar generator papers...Also, copies of hard-to-find papers are reprinted in the Appendix. It is a good contribution to the technical literature on a most interesting subject. -- Gary Johnson, Kansas State Univ.
Well-researched and informative... -- New Energy News
Well-researched and informative... -- New Energy News
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This review is from: The Homopolar Handbook: A Definitive Guide to Faraday Disk & N-Machine Technologies (Paperback)
Tom has done a good job in providing a text that is a recording of historical events and his own experiences homopolar research and development with a very detailed appendix. Although the homopolar motor is a bit of an anomoly in traditional electromagnetics, Tom provides a reasonable explanation for the experimental results and other developments. The discussion of relativistic effects of rotating systems is quite insiteful and would indicate that classical Electromagnetic theory needs an update!
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Good approach for understand it,
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This review is from: The Homopolar Handbook: A Definitive Guide to Faraday Disk & N-Machine Technologies (Paperback)
The Valone boock is a good compilation of Valone's work and homopolar phenomena. If you want to build some weird machine, you can start by reading it but don't believe here is the clue. For this, better read Mr. Bruce de Palma and others.
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The combination of cylindrical magnet and disk, rotating together, has been the center of controversy that still rages to this day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
liquid metal brushes, homopolar generator, homopolar motor, unipolar dynamo, unipolar generator, homopolar machine, back torque, current accumulator, armature reaction, unipolar induction, conducting disk, brush design, pulsed power supply, current shunt, copper disk, brush system, effective electric field, cylindrical magnet, ponderomotive forces, rotating magnet, motor demand, condenser plates, ceramic magnets, rotating reference frame, ring magnets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The combination of cylindrical magnet and disk, rotating together, has been the center of controversy that still rages to this day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
liquid metal brushes, homopolar generator, homopolar motor, unipolar dynamo, unipolar generator, homopolar machine, back torque, current accumulator, armature reaction, unipolar induction, conducting disk, brush design, pulsed power supply, current shunt, copper disk, brush system, effective electric field, cylindrical magnet, ponderomotive forces, rotating magnet, motor demand, condenser plates, ceramic magnets, rotating reference frame, ring magnets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Electromechanical Dynamics, Discrete Systems (Part 1) by Herbert H. Woodson on page 40, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Christ Consciousness by Norman Paulsen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Problem Solving Approach by Markus Zahn on page 38, and Back Matter
- Classical Electricity and Magnetism: Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics) by Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky on page 39, and Back Matter
- The Classical Theory of Fields, Fourth Edition: Volume 2 (Course of Theoretical Physics Series) by L D Landau on page 39, and Back Matter
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