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When you say "not so simple", what specifically are you referring to? The math or the physics? Both, I think, are appropriate to the undergraduate intermediate level.Delta2 said:Great article for an experiment that is relatively simple to setup and perform, however it has a not so simple detailed explanation using the laws of classical electromagnetism.
Yes I agree they are appropriate for undergraduate level, it's just that they are not so simple as for e.g. the emf of a rotating ring in a uniform B. The expressions look a bit complex, main responsible for this is the form of the B- field from a point dipole.kuruman said:When you say "not so simple", what specifically are you referring to? The math or the physics? Both, I think, are appropriate to the undergraduate intermediate level.
Thank you for liking the article and for pointing out this other thread. Part of my motivation for this article was to consolidate in one place what can be said about magnets falling through a single ring and a solenoid assuming the point dipole approximation. My hope is that it can serve as a reference for future questions and as a starting point for more complicated magnet points.Charles Link said:Very good article @kuruman :). Besides the thread by @billyt_ mentioned in the above article, it may also be of interest to see posts 122-123 and 138-139 of https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/calculating-magnetic-field-strength-of-a-magnet.1005917/page-4
@hutchphd and @bob012345 had very good inputs in helping to solve the problem of the EMF of a magnet moving through a ring.
Yes, I agree that the permanently magnetized disk model produces a better quantitative model if one has the data on one hand and the sophisticated analysis on the other. Like I said, the point dipole as a model is as useful and as accurate as the point mass is in mechanics.vanhees71 said:He is using a different model for the magnet, i.e., a cylinder of homogeneous magnetization, which has been demonstrated to be a quantitatively better model for the experiment with a real bar magnet than the dipole approximation:
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4864278