Perpendicular Allomancy

They would need F-zinc or F-steel in order to change their push/pull location that fast, IMO. I'm not gonna attempt the math, but that thing would probably be spinning 10k+ RPM.

I don't get the sense they can Push/Pull ALL of an object's mass out of alignment with the center of that mass, however. In other words, if you want to Push only at one edge of the object, you can only Push the mass located at the edge of the object. If you can manipulate the strength of a Push/Pull freely then this isn't TOO big of a problem. But the books suggest they don't have that level of control, and that the strength is a function of how much mass you're Pushing/Pulling.

Yeah, I was going to say something similar to what Jofwu said - I think there's a theory out there (I don't believe it's been confirmed) that says we've only ever seen one 'line' coming from a given object because of Cognitive Realm stuff, where the object being Pushed/Pulled perceives itself as one object, so you would only be able to push-pull the object. It's a really neat idea, though - if it were some sort of elevator specifically designed to have two metal plates on the top and bottom, it might work?

Actually... how much torque would this produce? You're Pushing the top and Pulling the bottom, so my 'elevator' idea wouldn't work either (at least not one I'd want to stand on), since it would end up spinning wildly as it rises.

On 4/15/2019 at 5:14 PM, SwordNimiForPresident said:

They would need F-zinc or F-steel in order to change their push/pull location that fast, IMO. I'm not gonna attempt the math, but that thing would probably be spinning 10k+ RPM.

Say the radius of the idol is 10cm. (That's actually a bit too large for 25kg of brass, but eh, round numbers.) The moment of inertia of a solid ball is (2/5)*m*r^2, which works out here to 0.1 kg m^2.

The depicted forces apply 600 Nm/rad of torque.

So the  angular acceleration is 6000 radians per second per second. (Or ~57000 RPM per second)

In other words, it would take less than a second  for the surface of the ball to accelerate past the speed of sound. Hover juggling heavy objects is probably not possible without holding the bands of mourning.

As for the concern about pushing only part of an object: We see both Kelsier and Wax do this in canon. Also:

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If I were burning iron, where would the line point to on a steel hula-hoop?

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For something like that, it would depend on the Steelpusher's power. For some, it would just be pointing generally toward the center of the hoop--but for skilled Steelpushers, they'd be able to see softer lines pointing in all directions around the hoop.

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Edited April 17, 2019 by bacontime

Now, I’m not an expert on physics-I’m not even out of high school yet-but I wonder at what point curveball physics would start applying and curving the path of the object.

also, excuse my bad drawing, but I think this might be more efficient:

and it would work, because it is possible to Push and Pull from different points in your body, Vin does it when she Pushes the Vial of Atium from her belt to in front of her, then Pulls the bead into her mouth, and there are other examples, too, but I’m too busy trying to do this and statistics homework simultaneously.

Edited April 18, 2019 by Ethan_Sedai

16 hours ago, Ethan_Sedai said:

because it is possible to Push and Pull from different points in your body,

I totally forgot about this, but their are WOBs that seem to confirm that this works. And this way has the advantage of not causing the target to spin widely.

The downside of course it that it causes the torque to be applied to the allomancer. So they'd need to anchor themself to something solid and burn pewter to handle the strain.