From 862c3b512e19c9cce77f34a41b66392f5049a294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gallagher Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 20:33:18 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [HomopolarMotor] add blog ref --- Kinetics/HomopolarMotor/README.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Kinetics/HomopolarMotor/README.md b/Kinetics/HomopolarMotor/README.md index e918c1477..b994db496 100644 --- a/Kinetics/HomopolarMotor/README.md +++ b/Kinetics/HomopolarMotor/README.md @@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ Its operation was demonstrated by Michael Faraday in 1821 at the Royal Instituti It is also the operating principle behind [railguns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun)! The basis of operation is pretty simple, once you understand magnitic and electric fields - which -back in 1821 was really the edge of science. +back then was really the edge of science. The homopolar motor is driven by the [Lorentz force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force). -There current from the battery flows through the wirefreme. +The current from the battery flows through the wireframe. This intersects the magnetic field of the neodynium magents which is roughly perpendicular. The [right-hand rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule) @@ -41,3 +41,4 @@ establishing the electric field. In fact the demo video shows how easy it is to * [Homopolar motor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homopolar_motor) - wikipedia * [Homopolar Motor](https://youtu.be/wUqbvHOW6Us) - Boom! CrazyRussianHacker * [Homopolar Motors Explained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttD3Jw9OfOI) - Martin Simon +* [..as mentioned on my blog](http://blog.tardate.com/2016/05/littlearduinoprojects203-homopolar-motor.html)