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Tornado (robot)
Tornado was a competitor on the UK TV series Robot Wars (TV series), ''Robot Wars'', noteworthy as the champion of the sixth series. It was built by Andrew Marchant, Bryan Moss and David Gamble, from Sawtry, near Huntingdon. Construction Andrew Marchant had originally planned to build a Continuous track, caterpillar tracked combat robot called ''Plague'' in 1999. After relocating to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Marchant met fellow ''Robot Wars'' enthusiast Dave Gamble. They formed a team and, inspired by ''Robot Wars'' series two semi-finalist ''King Buxton'', revised Marchant's design to employ go-kart wheels in a four-wheel drive formation. This redesigned robot was named ''Tornado'', as Gamble is a storm chasing, storm chaser. Bryan Moss joined the team in late 1999 to provide pneumatics assistance for the robot's weapon system. Work began on Tornado's steel chassis in February 2000 and the first iteration of the robot was completed at the end of July 2000, two days before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volt
The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI). It is named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827). Definition One volt is defined as the electric potential between two points of a conducting wire when an electric current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power between those points. Equivalently, it is the potential difference between two points that will impart one joule of energy per coulomb of charge that passes through it. It can be expressed in terms of SI base units ( m, kg, second, s, and ampere, A) as : \text = \frac = \frac = \frac. It can also be expressed as amperes times ohms (current times resistance, Ohm's law), webers per second (magnetic flux per time), watts per ampere (power per current), or joules per coulomb (energy per charge), which is also equivalent to electronvolts per elementary charge: : \text = \tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
