How do you calculate the force between to opposing magnets?

Subject: How do you calculate the force between to opposing magnets?

Date: Sun Jun 27 23:02:36 1999
Posted by Ian Baker
Grade level: grad (science) School: n/a
City: Melbourne State/Province: Victoria Country: Australia
Area of science: Physics
ID: 930542556.Ph

Message:


There are plenty of references discussing the force on a current-carrying wire
in a magnetic field but I cannot find how to calculate the forces involved when
two opposing fields (eg two north poles) are brought into close proximity.
Are the (H) fields added vectorially to get a resultant field? How is this
resultant field related to the forces experienced by the magnets?

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