Design and construct a perpetual motion device

• Main Author: Chan, Ren Wei.
• Other Authors: Khong Poh Wah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechanics and dynamics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45243
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the last century, people all over the world have numerous failed attempts to design and construct a functional perpetual motion device. The attractiveness of such device is due to its ability to benefit the world by providing cheap and clean energy for a more sustainable environment. Since there are many types of perpetual motion concept circulating in the internet, the author attempts on build on the idea of using the centrifugal force of a pendulum to create a mechanical feedback loop system and exert on the pendulum’s swing. Perpetual motion will occur when the pendulum is able to sustain by its own centrifugal force by recovering its frictional losses. By going through the design process of research, conceptual design, calculations, computer aided design and fabrication, the prototype of the device can be constructed for testing its functionality. The device consists of several key mechanisms: verge escapement and ratchet-clutch mechanism.