Timeline for How much power would it take to stop a bullet with a magnet?
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| Apr 11, 2018 at 16:37 | comment | added | Mikael Jensen | An interesting aspect: would a medical magnetic resonance imaging device stop a bullet from hitting a person on the other side of the coil? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 31, 2014 at 13:51 | vote | accept | DuckTapeal | ||
| May 30, 2014 at 11:56 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | +1 for a cool problem. I hope some high-school physics teachers drop this into their curriculum, not to mention designing a classroom experiment (with a Cu slug moving rather slower than a bullet!!) | |
| May 30, 2014 at 8:39 | comment | added | John Rennie | Are you sure you mean power? Wouldn't it be more interesting to know the magnetic field strength required (in Tesla). Then you could compare it with the most powerful magnets known (somewhere in the range 10 - 100T depending on how you define magnet). | |
| May 30, 2014 at 5:22 | comment | added | mmesser314 | See physics.stackexchange.com/q/103675 | |
| May 30, 2014 at 5:06 | comment | added | N. Virgo | I'm not sure that power is the best figure for determining that, though. Power is energy per unit time, and there's no obvious reason why physics would limit the rate at which Magneto can expend energy using his power. (I mean, it's all made up anyway, but if the total energy was too big then there would be a much better argument to be made.) | |
| May 30, 2014 at 4:50 | comment | added | DuckTapeal | I did mean power. Knowing the size of the magnet would be interesting, but I'm more trying to figure out just how feasible (as much as that word means anything when talking about superheroes) it is for Magneto to stop that bullet. | |
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| May 30, 2014 at 4:42 | comment | added | N. Virgo | Do you really mean to ask about power (a technical term meaning energy expended per unit time), or did you intend to ask about the size of the magnet that would be needed? | |
| May 30, 2014 at 4:01 | answer | added | rob♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
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| May 30, 2014 at 2:56 | history | asked | DuckTapeal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |