Sunday, December 18, 2011

Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe

Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe
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December 14, 2011 7:40 PM
by Sean Michael Ragan

Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe

This simple demonstration of eddy current braking (Wikipedia) will probably be familiar to many of you, but this video from YouTuber JamesRB1995 is a short, well-shot, impressive documentation of the effect. Keep in mind that copper is not ferromagnetic, and there is no direct magnetic attraction going on here.

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