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Does the size of a magnet make it stronger? How are magnets made? How does the shape of a magnet affect its magnetic field?
Size is just one of the ways one can change the strength of a magnet. However, it can get very difficult and expensive to simply make a magnet bigger. The other way is to make it BETTER. This can mean all sorts of things. With electromagnets, the modern method to make them better is to construct a superconducting magnet. That is, the electrical coils are made of materials that will lose all electrical resistance when immersed in a tremendously cold substance, such as liquid helium. Jefferson Lab has lots of liquid helium just for the purpose of attaining superconductivity, although most of it is not for magnets but for the accelerator's niobium cavities. However, the point is still the same. By reducing the electrical resistance, much higher amounts of electrical current can be put through the magnets, thereby generating a much stronger magnetic force. Another way to make a magnet better is by carefully choosing the material from which it is made. The standard strong magnet found in labs is usually made from ALNICO - a special alloy where strongly magnetic bits, made from an iron-nickel-aluminumalloy are embedded in an iron-cobalt alloy base. If you want something lighter that can generate a strong magnetic force, then one can try FERRITE (or ceramic) magnets which are made from iron oxide plus barium, strontium, or lead oxide. Like other ceramic materials (such as toilet bowls), they are brittle, so some care in handling is necessary. If you want to look over some varieties of permanent magnets, you can check out the online Edmund Scientific catalog. The strongest permanent magnets are made from an iron-neodymium-boron (Fe-Nd-B) alloy. This kind is actually used as a critical part of a nuclear physics experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). Almost without exception, nuclear physics experiments require a strong magnet and it is often a superconducting one. The AMS was designed as a compact system capable of being launched into space aboard the space shuttle. The standard nuclear physics electromagnet was out of the question. With the new type of permanent magnet made from the Fe-Nd-B alloy, the required strong magnetic field could be attained in a very compact volume without using any electrical power or liquid helium. The details of manufacturing permanent magnets are proprietary (i.e., a trade secret). However, the general technique is to take a FERROMAGNETIC material such as the ALNICO and expose it to a strong magnetic field, probably generated as very short (on a time scale) but very powerful bursts from a nearby electromagnet. The magnetic "bits" in a ferromagnet are small collections of material (say, a millimeter or so) called domains that have a definite magnetic field with a north and south pole. Normally, these domains are oriented in random directions, thereby canceling each other out. When exposed to this powerful outside field, the domains start to orient themselves according to the

direction of the strong outside field. The newer Fe-Nd-B alloy magnets have the added advantage that after the field is established, it tends to be more stable than other types of permanent magnets.

Teaching you kids about electricity, magnets and gravity

Living things move by themselves. Non living things need push or a pull to be able to move. Such push or a pull is called a force. It can make moving object to move faster if it is slow and move slower if it is fast. A force can also make a moving object change its direction. Electricity, magnets and gravity are some common examples of forces.

Magnetism and Motion. Have you ever seen or played with a magnet? When you open the refrigerator door slightly and then let it go. The door will close by itself. Doors of refrigerators have magnetic linings. The magnet helps to keep the door tightly shut. Magnets are generally made of iron or steel. The bar magnets and horseshoe magnets are the most common. A magnet has an invisible force with which it pulls or pushes certain things. This property of magnets to pull or push things is called magnetism. The magnetic force at both ends of the magnet attracts or pulls objects toward itself. Magnets attract or pull all objects made of iron.
Question: "What causes the poles of a magnet to be opposites?" Answer: All objects are made of tiny particles called atoms which have negatively charged electrons spinning around inside them. This spinning creates a small magnetic field. In most objects, these electrons are spinning in opposite directions, cancelling out any charge (or pull) that could be made by them. In magnets, however, these electrons spin together in the same direction, increasing their charge and their pull (magnetic field). This causes little regions, known as magnetic domains, where all the atoms in each region line up together so that they are all pointing in the same direction. A way to explain why the poles of a magnet are opposite is to think of these atoms as little arrows. In each magnetic domain, the atoms are lined up so that their "arrows" are all pointing in the same direction. In non-magnetic items, these arrows point in random directions, which cancels out their magnetic fields. In a magnet, the arrows can only point in one direction. When two magnets are placed close together with their arrows pointing towards each other (same poles facing each other), the arrows are not lining up together, so they try to get away or repel each other. But when the arrow tips of one magnet gets close to the opposite ends of the arrows of another magnet (opposite poles facing each other), the arrows are already pointing in the same direction so the magnets are attracted and automatically pull towards each other.

magnetic attraction
Meteorites are not magnets - they won't attract paper clips or pins. Most (>95%) meteorites (chondrites, irons), however, will attract a magnet because they contain a lot of iron-nickel metal. Some of the rarest kinds of meteorites (achondrites, lunar meteorites, martian meteorites) do not attract magnets because they contain little or no metal. Most terrestrial (Earth) rocks also do not attract magnets for the same reason.

Some earth rocks do attract magnets, however, because they contain the mineral magnetite.

Attraction and Repulsion All magnets have two ends where the pull is strongest - a north pole and a south pole. The poles are named this way because if a magnet is floating in water or is suspended by a string tied around its middle, it will align itself in a northsouth direction, consistent with the magnetic field of the Earth. The magnets attract the paper clips.

How to Make Objects Move with a Magnet

Paper clips attracted to a magnet.

Magnets have two poles, called north and south. The like poles are attracted to unlike poles, but like poles repel each other. For example, the north pole of one magnet is attracted to the south pole of another. Magnets have a force or magnetic field that attracts metal objects such as iron and steel. This makes magnets useful in car ignitions and toys. Certain metal objects will move if they are placed near a magnet, but others will not. To make objects move with a magnet attach a piece of metal, or another magnet, to it.

Where Do You Find Magnets in the House?

Answer
A magnet is an object made of certain materials which create a magnetic field. Around the house magnets can be found in Headphones, Stereo speakers, Computer speakers,Telephone receivers, Phone ringers, Microwave tubes,Doorbell ringer solenoid, Shower curtain weights and Refrigerator magnets to hold things Speakers=
When the electrical current flowing through the voice coil changes direction, the coil's polar orientation reverses. This changes the magnetic forces between the voice coil and the permanent magnet, moving the coil and attached diaphragm back and forth. So how does the fluctuation make the speaker coil move back and forth? The electromagnet is positioned in a constant magnetic field created by a permanent magnet. These two magnets -- the electromagnet and the permanent magnet -- interact with each other as any two magnets do. The positive end of the electromagnet is attracted to the negative pole of the permanent magnetic field, and the negative pole of the electromagnet is repelled by the permanent magnet's negative pole.

Speakers come in all shapes and sizes, enabling you to listen to music on your iPod, enjoy a film at the cinema or hear a friends voice over the phone.

In order to translate an electrical signal into an audible sound, speakers contain an electromagnet: a metal coil which creates a magnetic field when an electric current flows through it. This coil behaves much like a normal (permanent) magnet, with one particularly handy property: reversing the direction of the current in the coil flips the poles of the magnet.

The Magnet Pattern

Posted on 2012-12-13 by Mathias, tags: scala, pattern

In this post Id like to shine some light on one particular implementation technique that is used extensively under the hood of sprays routing DSL and which has turned out as a very valuable tool in our pattern toolbox. It solves certain kinds of problems in Scala API design and DSL development, especially (but not only) with regard to overloaded methods. We call it the magnet pattern and, hopefully, by the time youve finished reading this post this name will make sense to you.

Before diving into the details Id like to make clear that we are certainly not the first ones to use this pattern and by no means claim its original inventorship. However, we find it interesting and valuable enough to give it a proper name and dedicate a somewhat lengthy blog post to its description. (In the process well touch on quite a few interesting edge cases of the current Scala language implementation, so I hope youll learn something even if you consider yourself a somewhat seasoned Scala developer.) How do Magnets Work?
A magnetic field is created as the result of moving charges. A good example of this is electric current that flows through a wire. When this occurs, there are negatively charged, subatomic particles, called electrons, moving through the wire. As these charges move, a magnetic field forms around the wire. Likewise, the magnetic field of a magnet is created by the movement of electrons.

Generalize
Whats the effect of magnets? Students investigate the phenomenon of magnetism. They investigate the properties of magnets by experimenting with how magnets affect each other and which materials are affected by them. Students look for patterns and explain their observations. Students design and make items that make use of these properties such as magnetic fish games, toys or a compass. Throughout their investigations students develop and apply their science-specific language including magnetic, non-magnetic, magnetism, repel and attract.