Post by: davidk on 09/11/2018 12:05:41
magnets3.jpgNo matter how I orientated the two I could not sense any repelling and they always stuck together.
Note that the flat magnets that I used were not printed on either side.
Surely they must have polarity?
Post by: yor_on on 09/11/2018 12:51:50
https://www.wikihow.com/Determine-Polarity-of-Magnets
Post by: chris on 09/11/2018 12:53:12
Post by: yor_on on 09/11/2018 13:35:31
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6326-first-practical-plastic-magnets-created/
Heh, you were :)
Where did you get them?
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They must have a polarity as their spins is aligned into one direction to make them magnetic. What a magnet does when it get stuck is to align the spins of whatever material containing magnetic properties, as a fridge. When you unstick it that fridge loses that alignment the magnet imposed on its material and its spins take each other out inside it. I know what you're suggesting btw :) https://theconversation.com/explainer-the-mysterious-missing-magnetic-monopole-57661
Post by: davidk on 09/11/2018 14:18:19
Reply to yor_on:
Thanks. Using a compass, as suggested, cleared up a lot; polarity is indeed present on edges and surfaces.
Because the fields are so weak, the trick is to float one on water to to reduce friction and exclude gravity and approach with the other. The other thing is to use only 1-2mm overlap. Now I can feel weak repelling as loss of friction. Attraction is far stronger.
Post by: Colin2B on 09/11/2018 14:19:14
Imagine a series of horseshoe magnets side by side such that you get altenating NSNSNS etc. Now imagine that the horseshoes are the full width of the magnet so you get bands of NS etc.
This means one side (printed side) is not a magnet, but the other is and to get them to stick together you have to find the opposite bands. Try getting 2 exactly the same and sliding them across each other.
Post by: yor_on on 09/11/2018 14:23:58
Post by: davidk on 09/11/2018 14:29:32
[They are distributed with adverts printed on one side.]
Post by: Colin2B on 09/11/2018 17:52:45
That was a good idea to use a compass.
Post by: alancalverd on 09/11/2018 23:18:59
As Colin said, the tapes consist of alternating micro-magnets, so the near-field is strong but the far field is very weak.
Post by: evan_au on 10/11/2018 01:39:45
Quote from: OP
Why do plastic fridge magnets not repel each other?They do, but it is on a rather fine scale and you need to feel it rather than see it.
- As Colin2B says, they are magnetised in thin strips.
I find it best to start with two of the large flat sheets, of the same type
- This doesn't work if the magnetic strips have different widths...
- Place the "fridge" sides together, and rotate them until they "click" together. Now the magnetic strips are aligned in parallel, with N&S lining up and attracting.
- Now gently push the magnets parallel to each other
- In one direction they will slide easily, as they slide along the strips, with N&S lining up and attracting.
- At 90° to this, they will resist movement, as you are breaking the N-S attraction, and trying to make repulsive N-N and S-S alignments. But if you push harder, you will feel it "click over" into a new N-S alignment which attracts.
- If you now apply a steady force, you will feel it repeatedly jump from one strip to the next, creating a vibration as it jumps over the repulsive N-N alignments.
- If you push them very slowly and steadily, you will see the two magnets flapping together and apart as they attract and repel cyclically.
If you put the "advertising" sides together, there is very little attraction or repulsion. This is because they are often formed as a Halbach array - talk about blue-sky high-energy particle physics finding an everyday application in your kitchen!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array
Post by: RD on 10/11/2018 04:01:31
... Using a compass ...
Static magnetic-fields can be seen with this gadget ...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Magnetic_viewing_film.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_viewing_film
Post by: chris on 10/11/2018 11:55:02
... Using a compass ...
Static magnetic-fields can be seen with this gadget ...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Magnetic_viewing_film.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_viewing_film
Wow - what is that and how does it work?
Post by: RD on 10/11/2018 16:38:39
Wow - what is that and how does it work?
Magnetic Viewing Film is a bit like the iron-filings demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkSQX5VpYpQ),
but it's flakes of nickel suspended in tiny cells of mineral oil, in a sheet of plastic ...
Post by: yor_on on 10/11/2018 20:02:42
Post by: Bored chemist on 10/11/2018 20:12:16
That's cool, but what we're looking at is plastic material, made to magnetize. That's pretty weird as it is about the spins, not what we think of as iron etc, well, to me at least :) Don't think they exist in nature?In the case of fridge magnets we are talking about plastic in which someone has mixed a lot of iron oxide, and then magnetised it.
Post by: yor_on on 10/11/2018 20:36:33
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