how much acceleration could an electro magnetic ring produce?

Question

the ring would be approximitaly 1 in in diamiter

Answer 1

ah- this depends on a LOT of things. current, guage or wire made to create ring, material of the projectile...

you should look into coilgunnery its basically making things go fast with electromagnets. zoom!

check out these sites:
http://www.jeffhove.com/robots/coilgun.html easy fun project
http://www.oz.net/~coilgun/home.htm GOOD scientific site
http://www.anothercoilgunsite.com/nf-rapidfire-results.htm good coilgun site.

Answer 2

Sandia’s Z accelerator, where a rapidly expanding magnetic field drives pellets faster than any mechanism on earth. Not sure of the actual size but the chamber and disks can easily fit in your hand. The propulsion speed of 20 km/sec — almost three times that necessary to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth (about 7 km/sec) — would send material from New York to Boston in half a minute, and from Albuquerque to Santa Fe in a few seconds. A rifle bullet is typically propelled at 1 km/sec.

;-D Someday we will launch stuff into space this way.

Answer 3

Wowzers, too many unknown variables as far as I can see. How many winding of what diameter, internal resistance, power applied. Is the ring a superconductor? Then there are the many questions about the material to be accelerated, composition, weight...