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Force of electromagnet on piece of iron
I can find equations to give the force of an electromagnet on a piece of iron when the iron touches the electromagnet.
But what about when the iron is some distance from the electromagnet? ...
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Work on Ferromagnetic Object Due to Solenoid
I've been going through some equations and such trying to determine the work done by a solenoid on a ferromagnetic object. I have the following:
Magnetic field due to solenoid:
$\vec{B} = ...
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Magnetic engine
Is it possible to mimic crrent engine design (to some extent) by replacing the cylinders with opposed magnets? A device interupts their natural desire to push away from each other allowing them to ...
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Magnetic Force on a Loop and number of turns
Suppose we have a rectangular current-carrying loop with current $i$, then we know that the magnetic force on each side can be found as:
$$F=iL\times B$$
Where $L$ is the vector in the direction of ...
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Why the magnetic flux is not zero?
According to Maxwell's equations the magnetic flux over a closed surface must be zero, why in this case does not happen?
Thanks for your help
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Is it possable to create a magnitive field genarator, over the magnitive field [closed]
I had this dream that I was working on this machine. It looked like a donut shaped magnet and it was over the poles of the magnetic field. There was no electric motors to get it started , but the out ...
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Can a current carrying loop or wire produces no magnetic field?
A current carrying wire produces magnetic field around it. We can find the direction by Fleming's Right hand rule. We know change in electric filed produces magnetic field and change on magnetic field ...
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Do all known planets and moons have magnetic field?
In this Wikipedia article it is stated, that magnetic field of Earth is caused by currents in her core. The same origin is for Jupiter magnetic field.
For Moon (article) there is a magnetic field, ...
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Easy question about magnetism?
I have to build a simple electric motor by attaching a magnet to a battery, extending the terminals of the battery (with stiff wires so they could act as supports), and placing a coil of wire on top ...
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Liquid benzene magnetic susceptibility
In a solid state physics problem, I'm asked to make a rough estimate of the contribution to the diamagnetic susceptibility of the outer electron of each carbon atom. The wavefunction of these ...
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Row of pivoted magnets and energy scale
This question is about a system involving a horizontal row of length L of equally spaced pivotable magnets, each with a pole at either end. These magnets will often be referred to as units.
So each ...
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What causes the collapse of a Magnetic Field?
It's theorized that Mars once had a magnetic field which collapsed at some point.
There's also lots of speculation that a similar process will eventually happen to Earth. More recently has been the ...
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Difference between electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and Electromagnetic Field?
I'm a freshly graduated electrical engineer. One course that I really struggled with was Field Theory, because it was a lovely assortment of vector calculus and things that were explained to me well ...
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A simple electromotor?
I have to build a simple electromotor in the following way: I attach a permanent magnet to a battery, connect some metal supports to the terminals of the battery, and place a coil of wire on the ...
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Purcell and the Magnetic Field
When showing that the magnetic field derived from the curl being proportional to current and the divergence being zero is unique, Purcell says that at some sufficiently remote enclosing boundary the ...
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Magnetic Field versus Line Charge
Isn't a magnetic field basically an electric field originating from a line charge, but as seen in a boosted frame? I mean, that's where the relativistic explanation comes from right?
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North and south of magnetic field
The current I is flowing upward in the wire in this figure. The direction of the magnetic filed due to the current can be determined by the right hand rule.
Can we determine the north and the south ...
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Magnetic Field and the Speed of Light
Is it just a historical choice that both magnetic field and the Lorentz force equation include the speed of light?
I figure that whoever wrote up the equations (in cgs!) could have put both factors ...
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Induction cooker + superconductive pot
What will happen if I put a super-conductive object on an induction cooker, and turn the cooker on?
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Eddy current losses in electric steel by harmonics of a magnetic field
I am working on an model of a permanent magnet synchronous machine. Right now I am stuck with calculating the eddy current losses caused by the harmonics of the stator magnetic field in the electrical ...
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Effects of a very large magnetic field on the human body
Ever since reading about the NHMFL I have always wondered about this and asked several people without getting a good satisfactory answer. My question is, considering the simplest case let's say a ...
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Cause a change in the magnetic field detectable by a smartphone Magnetometer
I hope someone can shed some light or point me in the right direction.
I have a smartphone that has a Magnetometer built into it. I'm exploring some ideas
of how I might be able to use it. I want to ...
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Magnetic field of a Ferromagnetic cylinder [closed]
I have been stuck on this problem for hours and have no idea how to go about this problem.
You have an infinitely long cylinder made of linear ferromagnetic material of relative permeability Km, ...
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Magnetic field due to a rectangular wire [closed]
I have a infinitely long rectangular wire with width = 6cm, height = 0.1cm. A point P is 27 cm away from the center of the wire. I wanna know the magnitude of the magnetic field at this point. The ...
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What is the Earth's magnetic field in space?
I have looked around a bit, but haven't found a simple answer. At an altitude between 100-1000 km,
Is the magnetic field B still around $\sim 10^{-5}\ T$? Is there a simple equation that would provide ...
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Cancel out Earth's Magnetic field
Is there any tools except helmholtz coil to cancel out earth's magnetic field to calibrate magnetometers in practice.
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Difference between electrostatic and magnetic field [closed]
In this, F (the force set by the field) is perpendicular to the speed of the particle. In which case does F change the absolute value of V? Why or why not?
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How to design a AC/DC generator and motor? [closed]
Through electrodynamics mechanics learning, it is possible to design a simple and elegant design for the following four machines:
1. AC generator
2. AC motor
3. DC generator
4. DC motor
I have some ...
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Movement of the particle in a magnetic field
This is the numerical question.
A particle having a mass of 0.05 mg carries a charge of $5\times10^{-6}C$. The particle is given an initial horizontal velocity of 5000 m/s, what is the magnitude ...
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How to make a small tokamak?
$\require{mhchem}$I made a fusor once, like the easy science project: deuterium-deuterium ones, but they're really inefficient. I was wondering if it would be possible to make a small tokamak; not one ...
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A good theoretical approximation for a magnetically damped pendulum
In a laboratory course we had to perform an experiment with a pendulum (just an iron weight on a wire) and play around for some time with its wire's length and so on.
This was quite boring and we ...
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Equation of motion of charged particle under effect of magnetic field
A charged particle with specific charge q/m diverges from the origin [to the first quadrant] by angle X with x axis and with velocity v. To bring the particle back to the x axis, a magnetic field B is ...
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If I have a rectangular loop moving through a magnetic field, which way will it go?
If I have a rectangular loop moving through a magnetic field, which way will it go?
A uniform magnetic field (say it's pointing into the page)
A square/rectangular loop of wire moving into the field ...
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Magnetic field at a point [closed]
Find the magnetic field near a straight current carrying conductor of Length $L$ and current $I$, at point located along the perpendicular bisector of the wire a distance $r$ from the wire. Show all ...
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Should I use Coulombs law when magnets attract/repel?
When magnets attract to each other or repel.
Should I use Coulombs law? If not, why not?
Some would say that I shouldn't because: "Coulomb's law deals with static charges and force due to them. ...
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Is it possible to measure outside magnetic field from inside a car?
I know that I can detect a vehicle by using magnetic field. I can see obviously difference in signal when a vehicle pass. But I don't see that when measuring in a car.
Is it possible to measure ...
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B-field and Magnetic forces, speed of a particle
Let's say I have a particle moving perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field of magnitude $x \ T$, and it moves in circle with a fixed radius. How do I find the speed of this electron? Initially I ...
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Do magnets lose their magnetism/force when they attract/repel each other?
So yea, if two magnets attract/repel multiple times(A LOT) will they lose their magnetism? If they don't break during the whole process?
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Why in $F = iLB$, $L$ is a vector but $i$ is not?
I learned $F = iLB$ recently. However, I don't understand why $L$ is marked as a vector but $i$ is not.
For a normal rod, how should I define the direction of length vector $L$? And if I reverse the ...
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How do permanent magnets manage to focus field on one side?
The actuator of a hard drive head consists of two very strong neodymium magnets, with an electromagnetic coil between them. If you take that apart, the magnets attract each other very strongly. ...
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Why doe we not get a shock on induction cooker?
In induction cooking, eddy currents in cook-pot cause heat to be produced. But why do we not get a shock?
Also, why is it that current is converted to heat while it has a good conductor(say, steel) ...
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Is a Magnetostatic Approximation Appropriate for a Coilgun Application?
I have little experience with magnetodynamics. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have an overdamped RLC circuit as the firing mechanism of a coilgun. A small cylinder of iron (a nail or ...
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Possible to generate an electromagnetic field from moving an object through a magnetic field?
Is it possible to generate an electromagnetic field from a stationary rare earth magnet with a hole in it by passing an object through the hole?
By definition, a Lorentz Force is the force on a ...
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Magnetic Fields created by Current-Carrying Wires
The drawing shows two perpendicular, long, straight wires, both of which lie in the plane of the paper. The current in each of the wires is I = 5.6 A. What is the force and torque acting on each wire ...
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Mutual Inductance and the Dot Convention
Can anyone please explain me, the dot convention in coil systems (Mutual and self inductance) with some related images to understand..?
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Magnetic field line length
If I had a magnetic bar in space that was 2cm wide and 2cm high and was one Earth diameter long and had the same magnetic strength as the Earth, would the distribution of field lines be the same ...
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Calculating attracting magnets?
I have two identical bar magnets...
Each bar magnet can lift an object with 10lb of force.
When they attract each other, I believe that each magnet applies a force of 10lb to attract the other.
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Effect of strength of magnetic field on the height of a levitating superconductor?
Quantum levitation, flux pinning -- basically, when a superconductor floats above a permanent magnet, is really fascinating. But does the strength of the magnetic field influence the superconductor's ...
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Why does electricity flowing through a copper coil generate a magnetic field?
Can some one please explain to me why electricity flowing though a copper coil generates a magnetic field or where I could possibly find that information? Are there other materials that produce a ...
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Earth's Magnetic Field, Human Brain and Sleep
I remember reading somewhere:
when you sleep in a way subjecting your body to cut the geomagnetic
field at right angles, you become highly emotional whereas when it
is Parallel, it cools your ...
