Building a Newman Motor: I Need Help Troubleshooting!

[elitewarr]

. I tried making a newman motor according to a video on youtube. I have copper wires coiled around a plastic pipe, 200 above and 200 coils below the middle of the plastic pipe. The shaft in between is made of iron and it is quite thick. Now when I connect a 9v battery to the two ends of the copper wires, one above and one below, with some magnets in the pipe, around the shaft, nothing happened. I need help. Where did I go wrong?

Thank you

 

[russ_watters]

Newman as in Joseph Newman? If that's the case, where you went wrong is falling for a perpetual motion hoax.

 

[OmCheeto]

Newman as in Joseph Newman? If that's the case, where you went wrong is falling for a perpetual motion hoax.

Yes, I would trust the wikipaedia entry on this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Energy_Machine_of_Joseph_Newman"

The test results were published in June 1986 and concluded that it was not a perpetual motion machine, and the patent was again denied. Newman later withdrew the patent. Newman's ideas about electricity and magnetism have been described as pseudoscientific and his claims false.

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See also

* DC motor
* Displacement current
* Gyroscope
* Inductor
* Singly-fed electric machine
* Synchronous motor
* Voltage
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29" (person)
* Perpetual motion
* Voodoo science
* Anomalous phenomenon
* Free energy suppression

Voodoo science. I like the sound of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_science"
Park uses the term voodoo science as a catch-all concept covering four categories sometimes difficult to distinguish from each other:

* pathological science, wherein genuine scientists deceive themselves
* junk science, speculative theorizing which bamboozles rather than enlightens
* pseudoscience proper, work falsely claiming to have a scientific basis, which may be dependent on supernatural explanations
* fraudulent science, exploiting bad science for the purposes of fraud

The Crank entry is a fun read also:

No argument or evidence can ever be sufficient to make a crank abandon his belief.

 

[elitewarr]

If that is the case, is there any method of building an electric motor for a toy car, powered by 9V? Thanks.

 

[OmCheeto]

If that is the case, is there any method of building an electric motor for a toy car, powered by 9V? Thanks.

Build Your Own Simple DC Motor
http://www.flinnsci.com/Documents/demoPDFs/PhysicalSci/PS10405.pdf

 

[elitewarr]

ok. Thank you!