Magnetic poles, how do they work?

[SSSnail]

:awe: Seriously, and why do they switch?

 

[IronWing]

It's Jerry man, he makes the poles flip.

Shipping powders back and forth
Singing "black goes south and white comes north"

 

[shortylickens]

Giggity!

 

[theflyingpig]

The answer to this and all of your silly questions can be found in the Bible. Read it.

 

[Ken g6]

...And the Bible of Electromagnetics is Maxwell's equations. You want the Book of Ampère.

Unless you're wondering about Earth's magnetic poles. That's geology. :hmm:

 

[rcpratt]

They switch when current flows the opposite way, qtpie.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Miracles bitch

 

[mizzou]

:awe: Seriously, and why do they switch?

don't ask a scientist, I'm tired of they lyin

 

[The Boston Dangler]

well, the earth is filled with a conductive fluid in motion, so i guess it's possible for that fluid to slosh around until a threshold is reached where some upside-down fluid triggers a cascade of pole-flipping within the remaining fluid. either that, or magic.

 

[CPA]

well, the earth is filled with a conductive fluid in motion, so i guess it's possible for that fluid to slosh around until a threshold is reached where some upside-down fluid triggers a cascade of pole-flipping within the remaining fluid. either that, or magic.

I'm going with magic.

 

[TecHNooB]

in magnets you have a bunch of atoms with electrons that tend to want to spin around the atom in a concentrated ring. these electrons spin around the atom and act like small currents. the magnetic field from a ring of current looks like a dipole. in a magnetic, you have a lot of these dipoles aligned such that they magnify the effect of the surrounding magnetic fields. there's no 'flipping', it's just the dipole nature of the fields.

 

[Rubycon]

Kids that attend magnet schools often wind up being bipolar.

 

[rcpratt]

in magnets you have a bunch of atoms with electrons that tend to want to spin around the atom in a concentrated ring. these electrons spin around the atom and act like small currents. the magnetic field from a ring of current looks like a dipole. in a magnetic, you have a lot of these dipoles aligned such that they magnify the effect of the surrounding magnetic fields. there's no 'flipping', it's just the dipole nature of the fields.

It's not the electron orbitals aligning, but rather each electron's spin (which in itself is a misnomer, but that's fine).

 

[Perknose]

Count Casimir Pulaski was said to be a very magnetic Pole.

He fought the British all around where I live. He is reputed to have once saved George Washington's life, and is considered by some to be the father of the American cavalry.

This Pole died fighting with our Continental Army for American independence. Quite magnetic, indeed. :thumbsup:

 

[The Boston Dangler]

I'm going with magic.

me too

 

[Chaotic42]

Educate yourself, foo!

 

[Rubycon]

This thread is already fluxed enough. :biggrin:

 

[Cogman]

Pasta 4:24 On the 9th day, the Flying spaghetti monster said "Let there be a magnetic pole" and it was so.

 

[Analog]

 

[Perknose]

Kids that attend magnet schools often wind up being bipolar.

Oh, the iron, eeeee! :biggrin:

 

[logo908]

this.

 

[Jeff7]

This thread is already fluxed enough. :biggrin:

A FUBAR magnet?

 

[sdifox]