Magnetic Fields

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B) Magnetic Fields - regions in space where a magnetic forces may be detected

Magnetism
David Colarusso, Youtube

We will focus on fields around:

1) current carrying wire

2) permanent & electromagnets

3) Bar Magnets

A Magnetic Field is Curved

A magnetized needle moving near a magnet

Magnetic lines of force of a bar magnet shown by iron filings on paper:Magnet from
 Practical Physics, publ. 1914 by Macmillan and Company - copyright expired

(Actual magnetic fields contain
many more lines of magnetism)

1. Magnetic flux lines - lines of magnetism in a magnetic field.

- magnetic field is not continuous.

Between each line of magnetism
there exists ....

... no magnetic field

a) The needles of a compass line up perfectly with the flux lines

b) The arrows on a flux line show where the North Pole of a compass would point in that field.

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Compass / Bar Magnet
Windows to the Universe

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c) Magnetic force strongest at the ...

At Poles ...

  ... where flux lines are closest.

Cutting Magnets ...

... each piece is a brand new magnet

How can magnets

attract non-magnets?

St. Mary's Physics YouTube Channel

Directions: Slide the magnet on the right over to the metal on the left. (unmagnetized metal on left)

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Certain metals contain magnetic regions called domains.
They are randomly orientated.

The magnetic field in the bar magnet reorient the random magnet domains in the metal

August 2002 Regents 

Flux lines don't cross, Out of North into South

d) Measuring the strength of a magnetic field

Put a wire with a known current into the field and measure the force on the wire

Where does the north pole
 of a compass point south? 

Earth's Magnetic Field
Windows to the Universe 

What are these magnetic lines called?

Where is the field strongest?

Mina Gong - Class of 2009

Flux lines, The field is strongest at the poles

Flux Lines - Wire