Recent content by Irl495

OK thanks much, the resistance analogy helps a lot (the picture too, only the guy inside should relax b/c he's safe now :)

No you are right, you didn't misunderstand it, I remember now that it would be shield by steel/ferric materials. Glad to see it is an elementary question... At the time I posted I wasn't totally sure if iron shields as in dissipates/absorbs the magnetic field energy, or if it simply alters the...

This is question that can't really get a precise answer without significant modeling or experimentation, but I'm wondering what folks' intuition might be on an answer to the following setup + question: Suppose there is a steel tank made of steel pipe with walls about 0.25 cm thick, internal...

Nice to be "meet" you! I'm currently working towards a PhD in the area of energy systems/water splitting hydrogen production reactor design/empirical characterization in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department of my university. During my undergrad years I really enjoyed learning to...