Category: Coil Gun

Turns out that lots of folks have thought about modeling solenoids. Just hop over to Google for a quick search and you’ll turn up dozens of hits. They all make for very interesting reading, but as for me I’d rather not reinvent the wheel.
So, after perusing the literature for awhile, I came to […]

Wayne Lytle is my hero.
No, really. My hero. Here’s why:
Wayne had an idea that landed completely off the beaten path. Wait, more than idea, almost an obsession from what I can tell. Then again, maybe it was just the isolation resulting from being snowed in all those winter nights at Cornell […]

I was pretty pleased with the results of the animated GIF file in my previous post on this subject. I like the visualization of what is happening with the magnetic fields as the ball approaches the barrel of the solenoid. And a numerical table that I had output confirmed what I had read […]