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Uncommon card · Science
Linear motor, an Uncommon card
A linear motor is an electric motor that has had its stator and rotor "unrolled", thus it produces a linear force along its length, rather than a rotational force.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Linear motor quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Linear motor card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
However, linear motors are not necessarily ______.
Answer
straight. However, linear motors are not necessarily straight. From the Linear motor article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Drew Gilpin Faust. Drew Gilpin Faust 72 · Linear motor 69 · Gabriele Münter 66 · House crow 63 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- However, linear motors are not necessarily straight.
- Characteristically, a linear motor's active section has ends, whereas more conventional motors are arranged as a continuous loop.
- Linear motors are used by the millions in high accuracy CNC machining and in industrial robots.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Linear motor article was read about 48,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Linear motor
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Linear motor in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Gabriele MünterUncommon · Arts · ATK 66 DEF 64
- House crowUncommon · Nature · ATK 63 DEF 67
- Kerguelen PlateauUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 64
- Matt ParkerUncommon · Science · ATK 69 DEF 61
- Peter ŠťastnýUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 59
- Takuma AsanoUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 59
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Linear motor (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Schnibbi678, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
