The Standard Electrical Dictionary Part 100

The figures produced by iron filings upon paper or gla.s.s held near magnetic poles. By these figures the direction of lines of force is approximately given, and a species of map of the field is shown. (See Magnetic Field of Force--Magnetic Curves.)

Magnetic Filament.

The successive rows of polarized molecules a.s.sumed to exist in magnetized iron. Each molecule represents an infinitely small magnet, and its north pole points to the south pole of the next molecule. Such a string or row is a theoretical conception based on the idea that the molecules in a magnet are all swung in to parallelism in the magnetizing process. A magnetic filament may be termed the longitudinal element of a magnet. (See Magnetism, Hughes' Theory of.)

[Transcriber's note: This description parallels the modern notion of electron spin as the basis of magnetism in materials.]

Magnetic Fluids.

A two-fluid theory of magnetism has been evolved, a.n.a.logous to the two-fluid theory of electricity. It a.s.sumes north fluid or "red magnetism" and a south fluid or "blue magnetism." Each magnetism is supposed to predominate at its own pole and to attract its opposite.

Before magnetization the fluids are supposed to neutralize each other about each molecule; magnetization is a.s.sumed to separate them, acc.u.mulating quant.i.ties of them at the poles.

Magnetic Flux.

Magnetic induction; the number of lines of force that pa.s.s through a magnetic circuit.

Synonym--Magnetic Flow.

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Magnetic Force.

The forces of attraction and repulsion exercised by a magnet. By Ampere's theory it is identical with the forces of attraction and repulsion of electric currents.

Magnetic Friction.

The damping effect produced on the movements of a ma.s.s of metal by proximity to a magnet; the phenomenon ill.u.s.trated in Arago's wheel, q.

v. When a ma.s.s of metal moves in the vicinity of a magnet it cuts the lines of force emanating from its poles, thereby producing currents in its ma.s.s; as the production of these currents absorbs energy a damping effect is produced upon the movements of the ma.s.s.

Magnetic Gear.

Friction gear in which electro-magnetic adherence is employed to draw the wheels together. (See Adherence, Electro-magnetic--Electro-magnetic Friction Gear.)

Magnetic Inclination.

The inclination from the horizontal of a magnetic needle placed in the magnetic meridian. (See Magnetic Element--Inclination Map.)

Synonym--Magnetic Dip.

Magnetic Induction.

The force of magnetization within an induced magnet. It is in part due to the action of the surrounding particles of polarized material; in part to the magnetic field. (See Magnetic Induction, Coefficient of.)

In a more general way it is the action of a magnet upon bodies in its field of force. In some cases the magnetism induced causes the north pole of the induced magnet to place itself as far as possible from the north pole of the inducing magnet and the same for the south poles. Such substances are called paramagnetic or ferromagnetic. They lie parallel or tangential to the lines of force. In other cases the bodies lie at right angles or normal to the lines of force. Such bodies are called diamagnetic.

Some bodies are crystalline or not h.o.m.ogeneous in structure, and in them the lines of magnetic induction may take irregular or eccentric paths.

(See AEolotropic.)

Synonym--Magnetic Influence.

Magnetic Induction, Apparent Coefficient of.

The apparent permeability of a paramagnetic body as affected by the presence of Foucault currents in the material itself. These currents act exactly as do the currents in the coils surrounding the cores of electro-magnets. They produce lines of force which may exhaust the permeability of the iron, or may, if in an opposite direction, add to its apparent permeability.

Magnetic Induction, Coefficient of.

The number, obtained by dividing the magnetization of a body, expressed in lines of force produced in it, by the magnetizing force which has produced such magnetization, expressed in lines of force producible by the force in question in air. It always exceeds unity for iron, nickel and cobalt. It is also obtained by multiplying the coefficient of induced magnetization by 4 PI (4 * 3.14159) and adding 1. (See Magnetic Susceptibility--Magnetization, Coefficient of Induced.)

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The coefficient of magnetic induction varies with the material of the induced ma.s.s, and varies with the intensity of the magnetizing force.

This variation is due to the fact that as the induced magnetism in a body increases, the magnetizing force required to maintain such induction, increases in a more rapid ratio. The coefficient of magnetic induction is the same as magnetic permeability, and in a certain sense is the a.n.a.logue of conductivity. It is also termed the multiplying power of the body or core magnetized. It is the coefficient of induced magnetization (see Magnetization, Coefficient of Induced) referred to a ma.s.s of matter. For diamagnetic bodies the coefficient has a negative sign; for paramagnetic bodies it has a positive sign.

Synonyms--Permeability--Multiplying Power--Magnetic Inductive Capacity.

Magnetic Induction, Dynamic.

The induction produced by a magnetic field which moves with respect to a body, or where the body if moving moves at a different rate, or where the body moves and the field is stationary. In the case where both move, part of the induction may be dynamic and part static. (See Magnetic Induction, Static.)

Magnetic Induction, Static.

Magnetic induction produced by a stationary field acting upon a stationary body.

Magnetic Induction, Tube of.

An approximate cylinder or frustrum of a cone whose sides are formed of lines of magnetic induction. (See Magnetic Induction, Lines of.) The term tube is very curiously applied in this case, because the element or portion of a magnetic field thus designated is in no sense hollow or tubular.

Magnetic Inertia.

A sensible time is required to magnetize iron, or for it to part with its magnetism, however soft it may be. This is due to its magnetic inertia and is termed the lag. Permanent or residual magnetism is a phase of it. It is a.n.a.logous to self-induction of an electric circuit, or to the residual capacity of a dielectric.

Magnetic Insulation.

Only approximate insulation of magnetism is possible. There is no perfect insulator. The best ones are only 10,000 times less permeable than iron. Hence lines of force find their way through air and all other substance, being simply crowded together more in paths of iron or other paramagnetic substance.

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Magnetic Intensity.

The intensity of the magnetization of a body. It is measured by the magnetic lines of force pa.s.sing through a unit area of the body, such area being at right angles to the direction of the lines of force.

Magnetic Lag.

In magnetism the tendency of hard iron or steel especially to take up magnetism slowly, and to part with it slowly. (See Magnetic Inertia.) The lag affects the action of a dynamo, and is a minor cause of those necessitating the lead of the brushes.