Magnetism Flashcards
What type of reluctance does a temporary Magnet have
Low
What type of reluctance does a permanent magnet have
High reluctance
Iron content in a permanent magnet
Hard and high
Iron in temporary magnet
Soft
Three ways that a magnet can be demagnetized
AC current heat and vibration
Three elements which are magnetic
Iron nickel cobalt
State the law of magnetic repulsion/attraction
Opposites attract likes repel
Five properties of magnetic flux lines
Always form complete loops Represent tension along their length Repel eachother Don't cross Arrange for max number of lines
The lines of force emerge from what pole of a magnet
North
Poles inside a magnet flow from
South to north
What is reluctance
Resistance to magnetic flux
What is permeability
A measure of ability to conduct flux
What is a unit of magnetic flux
Weber
High carbon steels reluctance compared to iron
Low
Type of iron suitable for temporary magnets
Soft
Can magnetic flux travel in a vacuum
Yes
What is another name for magnetic lines of force
Magnetic flux
The magnetic flux and a circuit is directly proportional to the magnetomotive force and inversely proportional to the
Reluctance
The ease of which fluxes set up in the cross-section of material is called
Permeability
Magnetic screens are made up of what type of reluctance
Low
Why don’t magnetic lines of force collapse in the center of a magnet
Because they repel eachother
Why are there no magnetic poles in the fields surrounding current caring conductor
No points for these lines of force diverge or converge
Is the field around the conductor more dance or less dense closer to the conductor
More
As the current in the conductor is decreased what happens to the magnetic lines of force surrounding the conductor
The flex lines collapse inward