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    Theories and Experiments for Gyro Monorails
    Theories and Experiments for Gyro Monorails
    Theories and Experiments for Gyro Monorails
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    Theories and Experiments for Gyro Monorails

    By MORI Hiroshi

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    It started with a red gyro monorail exhibited by Mr. Akio Inoue at the JAM Convention (International Railway Model Convention) in the summer of 2007. Dr. MORI, Hiroshi, a popular novelist, who once taught dynamics in a university, was consulted about the theories by Mr. Inoue, his mentor in the field of railway modeling. It inspired Dr. MORI to build it for himself.

    A gyro monorail runs on a single rail, while delicately keeping the balance. The mysterious view of the car turning curves fast once fascinated people, and it was researched as the “vehicle of the future” in the past. When Dr. MORI uploaded the video footage of his Prototype No. 9 on the Internet, inquiry e-mails and accesses flooded into his website. This eBook features his takes on the theories and experiments for gyro monorails.

    “How to Build a Simple Gyro Monorail” is also available.

    (This work first appeared on 2010 May and June issues of a Japanese monthly magazine “Hobby of Model Railroading” by Kigei Publishing.)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 30, 2017
    ISBN9781365859953
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      Theories and Experiments for Gyro Monorails - MORI Hiroshi

      Theories and Experiments for Gyro Monorails

      Theories and Experiments for Gyro Monorails

      Originally written in Japanese by MORI, Hiroshi

      Photographs and Figures by MORI, Hiroshi (unless otherwise noted)

      Translated by Ryusui Seiryoin

      Cover design by Tanya

      This work was first published in Japan in 2010.

      Japanese edition copyright © 2010 MORI, Hiroshi / Kigei Publishing

      English edition copyright © 2017 MORI, Hiroshi / The BBB: Breakthrough Bandwagon Books

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-365-85995-3

      0. About This Article

      The article first appeared on 2010 May and June issues of a Japanese monthly magazine Hobby of Model Railroading (published by Kigei Publishing). This document is published after the author gained the permission from the publisher.

      1. How It Started

      It was at the JAM Convention (International Railway Model Convention) held in the summer of 2007. Among the locomotive models made by Mr. Akio Inoue, the most outstanding one was a red gyro monorail (Photograph 1). Unfortunately, the model was incomplete. In fact, I heard directly from Mr. Inoue himself that he had been trying to build this unprecedented model. Rather, he even sought advice from me. I was a little nervous to say the least, because it was rare for the one whom I look up as my mentor to do so. Probably, he decided to ask me because I was teaching dynamics at a university.

      My major was not exactly the same as dynamics. Rather, my specialty is numerical analysis of viscous fluids. In this field, it is more about programming rather than setting up theoretical formulas. However, general education curriculums were dismantled during the university reformations, so I was forced to be in charge of a mathematical class for undergraduates. I had to visit other departments to give lectures of cross and dot products of vectors, and calculus. Because I was unaccustomed to them, I had to study them very hard. Even though I hardly studied them back in the days of entrance examinations, I was given no choice but to study them for my job at that point. After my lectures, I was often asked by students, How would this be useful for our lives? It was what I myself wanted to ask. I think about how it has actually become useful for me ... In this occasion, in order to successfully build a gyro monorail, I needed that very mathematics.

      When I was an elementary school student, I was interested in mobile toys, and eventually started building model trains. It was designed only to move forward with a

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