Timeline for Would two Neodymium magnets stick together with twice the power?
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| Jun 7, 2014 at 20:16 | vote | accept | Marco | ||
| Apr 22, 2014 at 18:55 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Awright -- an experimentalist after my own heart :-) . | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:31 | comment | added | rob♦ | @Carl: the fields from the coils add, but the additional force isn't linear. Answer updated. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:29 | history | edited | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 11:39 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | I'm not completely convinced: a stack of coin magnets (in the absence of energized coils, etc.) will grab loose magnets, or bits of iron, from a much greater distance than a single coin magnet. The total field strength created by a stack is roughly the sum of the individuals. The difficulty in separating the discs from each other is, I suspect, due as much to the mechanical difficulty in prying one loose as to the magnetic attraction. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 7:03 | history | answered | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |