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  2. Magnetism - Wikipedia

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    Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other.Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, magnetism is one of two aspects of electromagnetism.

  3. Magnetobiology - Wikipedia

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    Magnetobiology is the study of biological effects of mainly weak static and low-frequency magnetic fields, which do not cause heating of tissues. Magnetobiological effects have unique features that obviously distinguish them from thermal effects; often they are observed for alternating magnetic fields just in separate frequency and amplitude intervals.

  4. Magnet - Wikipedia

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    A magnet's magnetic moment (also called magnetic dipole moment and usually denoted μ) is a vector that characterizes the magnet's overall magnetic properties. For a bar magnet, the direction of the magnetic moment points from the magnet's south pole to its north pole, [ 15 ] and the magnitude relates to how strong and how far apart these poles ...

  5. Electromagnet - Wikipedia

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    (A non-circuit example would be a magnet with a straight cylindrical core.) To determine the force between two electromagnets (or permanent magnets) in these cases, a special analogy called a magnetic-charge model can be used. In this model, it is assumed that the magnets have well-defined "poles" where the field lines emerge from the core, and ...

  6. Horseshoe magnet - Wikipedia

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    The shape of the magnet was originally created as a replacement for the bar magnet as it makes the magnetic field stronger for a magnet of comparable strength. [5] A horseshoe magnet is stronger because both poles of the magnet are closer to each other and in the same plane which allows the magnetic lines of flux to flow along a more direct path between the poles and concentrates the magnetic ...

  7. Lenz's law - Wikipedia

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    The net work on q 1 thereby generates a magnetic field whose strength (in units of magnetic flux density (1 tesla = 1 volt-second per square meter)) is proportional to the speed increase of q 1. This magnetic field can interact with a neighboring charge q 2 , passing on this momentum to it, and in return, q 1 loses momentum.

  8. Magnetoreception - Wikipedia

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    Of course, this potential dual mechanism theory raises the questions of to what degree each method is responsible for the stimulus, and how they produce a signal in response to the weak magnetic field of the Earth. [9] In addition, it is possible that magnetic senses may be different for different species.

  9. Lodestone - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] [11] This inhomogeneous crystalline structure gives this variety of magnetite sufficient coercivity to remain magnetized and thus be a permanent magnet. [9] [10] [11] The other question is how lodestones get magnetized. The Earth's magnetic field at 0.5 gauss is too weak to magnetize a lodestone by itself.