That's what I was thinking.
That's logical.
That was sort of my limited understand. Each coil would activate to pull the projectile then the previous coil would deactivate to release the magnetic hold and the next would activate to accelerate/pull it ahead until eventually its just released...
Howdy. My kids and I like to experiment with things, we're looking to play around with some permanent magnet experiments and when I googled a question it brought me here, so I figured, heck, might be able to get my questions answered as well :)
I stumbled upon this video on YouTube:
Here is a screenshot with some colored lines added of the part that generated a few questions in my head that I hope some of you smart folk can answer for me.
In the video, the spherical magnet (at the end near the two big magnets) appears to increase...