Re: Why do permanent magnets have the ability to move an object which has mass

Date: Sat Nov 14 15:03:09 1998
Posted By: Avra Brahma, Grad student, Aerospace Engineering, OSU
Area of science: Physics
ID: 908655085.Ph

Message:


this is exactly the concept of action at a distance. in moving a mass you
have to do work and this work comes from a potential field, which could be
electric, magnetic, gravitational.....

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