As a college student I have a lot of extra soda cans around I thought it would be neat to tryto have some fun with them. What I would like to do is make some sort of solenoid or system of solenoids that would launch a soda can. What I am wondering is if an aluminum can is afected at all by the...
I don't know if I would be considered a dedicated tinkerer, but where could I find more information about linear solenoids, it doesn'st sem to me that railguns were that similar to solenoids other than that they both make a magnetic field. I'm interested in finding out how to use a solenoid...