Talk:Catapult effect
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After 45 years as a power engineer, I never heard the term catapult effect before. No illustrations. No sources. A google search provides a very small number of hits. But one hit says that "Catapult effect" is a synonym for "motor effect"
Electric_motor#Force_and_torque This Wiki article talks about this force as the result of the Lorenz Force Law.
I think catapult effect is obscure nomenclature, and unnecessary because we have the Lorenz Force Law. I recommend deleting this article from Wikipedia. Anorlunda (talk) 22:04, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
- The only citation in this article doesn't support this entry. The final statement in the source states:
- Thus, from a pedagogical viewpoint, the catapult picture ultimately fails because it encourages students, in their attempts to grasp a difficult and counterintuitive concept, into confused thinking about the forces caused by magnetic fields.
- This article should probably be updated to talk about origins of this statements and reasons why it is not mentioned besides in high school physics. Gregf36665 (talk) 08:21, 18 January 2026 (UTC)