Name: Chuck L.
Status: other
Age: 40s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 2/26/2003
Question:
Could a hollow ball be magnetized so one pole is on the
inside surface of the ball and the other pole is on the outer surface?
Replies:
No, because the field required to magnetize the ball cannot exist. However,
such a magnetized ball can be constructed from pieces separately magnetized.
Somewhere there must be flux leakage, because field lines cannot simply end
in the middle of the ball.
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