TITLE:
On the Feynman Ratchet and the Brownian Motor
AUTHORS:
Gyula Vincze, Gyula Peter Szigeti, Andras Szasz
KEYWORDS:
Brownian Motor, Feynman Ratchet, Self-Sustaining Oscillation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Biophysics,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
10,
2018
ABSTRACT: We study the Brownian ratchet conditions starting with Feynman’s proposal. We show that this proposal is incomplete, and is in fact non-workable. We give the correct model for this ratchet.