I do have another question on a related note for which I have found no satisfactory answer in the reading I have done on the subject. Say we have two identical air-core solenoids that are placed face-to-face. The coils are then connected in parallel with an alternating current source. Since the...
I was wondering, are there significant effects on the performance of a solenoid when the solenoid is inside an external magnetic field? Does it affect the rate at which the magnetic field is established within the solenoid?