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- Subject: Re: Home made monopoles
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:16:31 GMT
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- In article <1jr3uiINNcjk@mirror.digex.com> bdoa@digex.digex.com (Barry Adams) writes:
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- >
-
- > Home made magnetic monopoles
- > ============================
-
- > Contrary to popular belief , magnetic monopoles exist and are easy to
- >make . Take a Steel hemisphere and cut a concentric hemisphere cut of the
- >middle , now magnetize the hemisphere such that the domains of the object
- >are aligned with the north (south) pole pointing outwards. Now stick two of
- >the hemispheres together forming a sphere (glue strong enough to resist
- >the magnetic repulsion of the hemispheres is required) you now have your
- >magnetic monopole :-) , since any observer will see the object having a north
- >pole only (unless they cut it open).
- > Of course the configuration is unstable and the domains will slowly try
- >to rearrange themselves to a more stable state. And the magnetic force still
- >decays like a dipole. Such objects might to useful as frictionless bearings.
-
- >Barry Adams
-
- >
-
- Have you really made such kind of "monopole"? If so, have you made
- some measurements on the magnetic field from this "monopole" ? I don't think
- you can really do these.
-
- There should not be any magnetic field outside your magnetic
- sphere. The reason is obvious. Divergence of magnetic is zero everywhere
- instrument is spherically symmetrical. So, the magnetic field should be zero
- outside the sphere. You can understand the problem in another way. Both
- the north and south poles (one is on the inner surface and the other is on
- the outer surface) contributes equally to the magnetic field outside the
- your "monpole", just like the situation that there are equal quantity of +ve
- and -ve charges distributed spherically symmetrically on the inner and outer
- surface of a thick spherical shell.
-
-
- C.W.Kwok
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- Email Address: eddy-kwok@cuhk.hk
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