author=bistander link=topic=4661.msg112047#msg112047 date=1715288390
There is only one magnetic field in the space around the magnet due to the magnet.
I would disagree with that.
There are two fields around the body of a PM, where one field has a positive charge (so to speak), and the other a negative charge (so to speak)
At every physical point in that field (space) there is a single B vector.
Once again, i disagree.
The image below is incorrect, and does not show what a magnetic field around a PM body is.
That B vector represents the magnitude (tesla or webers/meter2) and direction of the magnetic field at that point.
Once again, i disagree.
The diagram below does not show the !direction! of the magnetic field.
What we call the magnetic field, is a field of two separate !charges!, which are pinned in space, and not to the PMs body.
This is why the homopolar generator sees no charge separation across the disk when the magnet is spun, but sees a charge separation across the disk when the disk is spun.
If there is a moving charge at that point in the field (as in the current in the wire), a reaction occurs called Lorentz F which has a direction and magnitude (B×qv). The wire will move until it encounters an obstacle.
If there is only one magnetic field around the body of a PM, and if at every point in that field there is a single B vector, then what is this obstacle?
And, the stable detent, middle of the magnet side, is not a neutral point.
But it is, as that center point of the magnet cannot induce an emf in a coil, like each end of the magnet can.
The field at the center of a PMs body, is a mix of both fields that exist around the PMs body, and has a net field value of 0, which is why it cannot induce an emf into a coil when passed across a coil.
It has a B vector, a current and a Lorentz F. That force holds the wire tight against the magnet surface.
The wire sticks there as there is no net field, just the same as the wire would stick to any unmagnetized ferromagnetic material.
The current carrying wire is repelled by the magnetic field around each end of the magnet, and is attracted to the PMs ferromagnetic body where the net field is 0, which is at the center point of the magnets body. With the current flowing in one direction through the wire, the wire may rotate CW to the center of the PMs body. If the current is flowing in the opposite direction through the wire, the wire may rotate CCW to the center of the PMs body.
That's why when you reverse the current, the wire doesn't repel away from the magnet, but moves to the magnet's opposite side to the new stable detent.
Actually, the wire is repelled away from the magnets fields, regardless of which field the current carrying wire is in, or which direction the current is flowing through the wire, and is attracted to the point where the net field value is 0- at the center of the two fields.
If the current carrying wire is in the bar magnet's magnetic field, it is attracted towards the magnet.
Actually, PMs experiment shows it being repelled by the magnets field, and coming to rest where the field has a net value of 0--at the center between the two fields.
I suggest you do the experiment yourself. I think you'd better understand what I'm talking about.
I have done many experiments, which confirm everything i say, where there is a field net value of 0 at the center of the two fields around a PM.
The PM is separating some form of charge that exists all around us, and the fact that PMs exhibit the same forces in space, also tells us that this !charge! exists in all space in the universe.
Or are we to believe that the PM it self is spewing out a continual stream of something?, where oddly enough, that something that is being continually spewed out at one end of the magnet is opposite to that at the other end of the magnet? We need like !charges! to repel, and unlike !charges! to attract-do we not? So, the field around a PM cannot be the same all around the PM as you state. Everything has an equal and opposite, so how can the field around the PM body be the same all around the PM body?
Brad
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