The Force Produced and Observed by an Asymmetric Capacitor Thruster as Measured in Horizontal and Vertical Configurations

Throughout the spring 2013 semester I continued to work on the frictional model for a rotating lifter system. The previous frictional model assumed friction to be a constant, which only showed to be valid for sufficiently small values of . Now it has been determined that friction is proportional to the velocity, which is valid through all angular displacements. Allowing the lifters to move through air, a non-viscous liquid, 2, allowing us to determine that 0.02708516 0.0006465 . This value of was then used to evaluate the thrust force of a two-armed rotating lifter system in both the horizontal and vertical orientations. In the horizontal orientation of the rotating lifter system, the magnitude of the thrust force was determined to be 163.8856 0.0072 . Moreover, in the vertical orientation of the rotating lifter system, the magnitude of the thrust force was determined to be 184.8056 0.0939 . The magnitude of the thrust force calculated for the vertical configuration of the system is consistent with the magnitude of the thrust force calculated for the horizontal configuration of the rotating lifter system.