Electromagnetic Radiation from a Rotating Magnet

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Accelerated charges emit electromagnetic radiation, and a rotating magnet can also produce such radiation, leading to energy loss from its kinetic energy. A rotating bar magnet can generate electricity through a loop of wire or create mechanical work via oscillating devices influenced by its magnetic field. The energy extracted from these systems results in a corresponding loss of energy in the spinning magnet. However, the effectiveness of these energy extraction methods is limited by the poor conductivity of air and space for magnetic flux. Pulsars, with their rapidly rotating magnetic fields, may radiate energy effectively due to their high angular velocities.
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I know that accelerated charges give off electromagnetic radiation, but does an accelerated (spinning) magnet give off electromagnetic radiation as well? If so, what is the energy loss from the magnet's kinetic energy?
 
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It seems to me that if you have a bar magnet, rotating in a horizontal plane about its centre so that an observer to (say) the west felt the effects of each pole in alternation as it spins, it would be possible to draw energy from the system in at least 2 ways:
1) a loop of wire leading to a load could be arranged to collect energy and dissipate it in the load (this is how electricity is generated commercially), or
2) a mechanical device composed of a spring and a piece of steel could be made to oscillate back and forward under the applied magnetic field and work would be done.

In either case, the work done by the mechanism, be it electric or mechanical, would be felt by the spinning magnet, and to the extent that energy (work) is supplied to the mechanism it would be lost by the rotating magnet.

Please notice that the air (and empty space) is a a very poor conductor of magnetic flux, so that these effects are usually useful only over very small distances.
 
I think maybe pulsars with rotating magnetic fields (dynamos) will radiate energy, because at large enough distances, the angular velocity of the moving magnetic field will approach the speed of light. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar
Bob S
 
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