Recent content by alditi

I'm working on a project in which I have to build a tiny 4 cm long heater. I did this with copper-windings stuffed in a tiny steel rod. Now I know the power input into this heater is 0.368W, at constant voltage 1.5 volts and the resistance of the heating element is 6.1ohms for a time of...

Thanks, you're right there are much more practical systems. It's a small system and we were just discussing ideas. They wanted something original, something that hadn't been done before so i suggested this. and the prof made me feel the physics might be wrong. In the ISS system i wasn't sure...

I'm thinking of non pyrotechnic ways to make changes in the velocity of a satellite in space and my concepts here might be totally wrong, but i wondered if transfer of momentum might work. That is, as in the first image if i have a small mass compressed by a spring and i release it later by...