bavspaceprogram
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I've always wondered this, since I've heard it said both ways... Is it a rocket motor or a rocket engine? I've always leaned towards motor. What do you think?
Right, but is it spelled "woosh" or "whoosh"? :wink:
I knew you had a sense of humour.bobkrech said:A decades old argument. Either or Neither. Maybe Woosh Generator...
You plug the igniter into it right? So, Motor? LolI use both, though I was once told "if you have to plug it in, it's a motor".
You plug the igniter into it right? So, Motor? Lol
Couldnt resist Chad!I knew somebody would go there...
I prefer this, the entropic logic. Otherwise, we might call a search engine a search motor.In the old days the definition was based on thermodynamics. Around the turn of the century if the conversion of heat into mechanical energy was taking place the device was called an engine.
If there was any other conversion (electric, water head, air pressure, wind etc) into mechanical energy the device was called a motor.
For example if you produced work with your internal combustion device by burning fuel it was an engine.
If you operated the exact same device with compressed air it was a motor.
Also the orgins of this terminology were confined to devices the predominately converted energy to product rotational mechanical energy.
James Watt if he were still alive would know precisely what the answer is to this question.
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