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physics.class-ph2006★ 14 cited
Superconducting pipes and levitating magnets
Yan Levin, Felipe B. Rizzato
Motivated by a beautiful demonstration of the Faraday's and Lenz's law in which a small neodymium magnet falls slowly through a conducting non-ferromagnetic tube, we consider the d…
physics.class-ph2006★ 43 cited
Electromagnetic braking: a simple quantitative model
Yan Levin, Fernando L. da Silveira, Felipe B. Rizzato
A calculation is presented which quantitatively accounts for the terminal velocity of a cylindrical magnet falling through a long copper or aluminum pipe. The experiment and the th…