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Subject: What happens to a FAILED Spherical 'monopole' magnet once it is a sphere???

Date: Thu Jun 7 02:37:42 2001
Posted by Kuok
Grade level: 10-12 School: Marcellin college
City: Sydney State/Province: NSW Country: Australia
Area of science: Physics
ID: 991895862.Ph
Message:

I also thought about this spherical magnet idea, and agreed that there would be 
no field possible on the outside... so i have a few questions
1) The inside is also canceled out right?
2) so what does it become? a metal? and since there is no more magnetic force, 
what happens when u remove the 'glue' keeping the many triangular pieces of 
magnet used to construct it.. will all the pieces fly apart immediately?
3)what if there was one piece missing? a small hole in the sphere? would there 
be a force around that hole be alot greater or normal?
4) the fields cancel each other out right, So where does the field go? between 
the magnets? and only between them?


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