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  • i wonder if those magnets cracked apart if they would still stick together in the shape they were previous to the cracking...

  • but what is magnetic levitation? and how does it work ??

  • @bouzaglo3 Watch the video to the right called "Beer Levitation - Sixty Symbols." It's basically the second part of this one, where magnetic levitation is described and demonstrated with a droplet of beer.

  • @bouzaglo3

    Motherfuckin Miracles

  • @sixtysymbols

    What about a video on EM and James Clerk Maxwell?

  • Piercings in your mouth or ears or elsewhere = LOL

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  • I was gonna say: I could've sworn one of the keys they were dangling next to the magnet had a transponder on it. That would be a bit expensive.

  • About 6:58 I was quite afraid he was about to whip out his prince albert.

  • Wait! you're taping this? isn't a digital camera?

  • @jimo1150 Some digital cameras use tapes (MiniDV is an example). It's digital information stored on magnetic tape.

  • This video is incorrect in many things. A fridge magnet does NOT generate a magnetic field, because magnetic fields are generated ONLY by moving charges. A fridge magnet generates an amplified electromagnetic field from the aligned polar atoms...essentially the same force that keeps you from falling through objects. A magnetic field has to do with the spin quantum number of a particle and also in the end acts through EM-forces to create relative motion between two charged particles.

  • @katulobotomia I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure that's not right. If you hold a fridge magnet next to a current carrying wire, the wire will be deflected. This can only be due to a magnetic field, because the wire is neutral overall so a purely electric field would not cause it to move. Magnetic fields are generated by moving charges, but there are moving charges inside a fridge magnet, when you look at the atomic level.

  • @katulobotomia

    Magnetic field can be defined in many equivalent ways based on the effects it has on its environment. For instance, a particle having an electric charge, q, and moving in a magnetic field with a velocity, v, experiences a force, F, called the Lorentz force. See force on a charged particle below. Alternatively, the magnetic field can be defined in terms of the torque it produces on a magnetic dipole. Thats how it is taught.

  • Is that Brady at 6:55?

  • @pauldve yeah, he films all of the videos for Nottingham: Periodic videos, Test Tube, Sixty Symbols.

  • I thought He had stud in his penis, and he will .... :)

  • @kristijanadrian I'm not going to argue this point with you, mostly because I believe you probably know more about it than I do. but I can say that there is no sheilding on most cpus and magnets seem to have no adverse effect on the chips. cheers

  • Who's dat guy at 0:04?

  • Very nice video, but it doesnt say much about magnetic fields :)

    I would love to see a new version of this video which goes a little bit more into detail of magnet fields.

  • Thumbs up to whoever loves this sereis and whoever admires Brady Haran.

  • where can I get neodymium magnets?!?

  • @brenoakiy ebay

  • I'm glad he took 8 minutes to tell me something that could have been done in 2.

  • not as super as said

  • What if the camera is digital? does magnetic effects the storage as well?

  • It only affects tapes, not cds, dvds or memory sticks or something like that.

    It also affects a computer's hard drive, because it works in the same way as a floppy disk.

  • yes, it affects how the camera physically works, as in components you can see magnetic fields if you put a magnet next to an old tv screen as the field will project onto the screen, but it will fuck your tv

  • it could potentially affect the electronics in the camera since moving a conductor through a magnetic field will induce a current. So electronics might go haywire in a strong magnetic field. Although you can protect the electronics by building them inside a Faraday cage.

  • @OBI0131 if there is a HDD or tapes in there then yes otherwise not :D

  • @OBI0131 It will erase everything, but it wont destroy it. I think.

  • Hi Richard - What do you think happens to the human body when close to such magnets? I believe water can be magentised..? - Oh what woudl happen to someone having a close look with mercury fillings... ouch! Checked out your other channel - more videos please... ;-)

  • very cool little video - down to earth... magnetism that is ;-)

  • If you're interested in finding out more about how this works, there's a link to our homepage in my profile (click on 'ppzrjah').

    - Richard (the bloke in the video)

  • I hate B!  My IB physics exam is in 3 days and I have to remember the stupid formulae!

    He wasn't kidding about snapping fingers btw. A couple of good Neodymium magnets can snap a pencil like a twig.

  • Some keys contain microchips. I hope you could start your car.

  • Yes, I wondered that too, just after I did the video... but it works fine. Phew :-)

    -Richard

  • @Digeridude microchips arent effected by magnets. even ram chips operate by electrical charge... your thinking of a hard drive...

  • @gtq838

    Microchips are very easily effected by magnets. They contain wires of various lengths, all of which when passed through a magnetic field will have a current induced in them. Not only will this disrupt the precise charges which govern normal operation, it can also push those currents beyond safe levels and permanently damage the hardware itself. Most chips have some level of magnetic shielding for this reason.

  • @Phage0070 in theory you make a good point, on the other hand I've held up a rather large n45 magnet directly to the surface of ram and a cpu on a running machine with no adverse effects. and at that proximity thats a pretty extreme magnetic field.

  • @gtq838

    Hence the shielding I was talking about.

  • oh goodie. a brief glimpse at the filmmaker. to paraphrase Mae West:

    "Is that a magnet in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

  • I'm learning about magnetic field in physics now! :D

  • absolutely brilliant !!!

    we all would love to see more of this kind

  • @brilliantfranz speak for yourself, only.

  • cool. magnetism is one of my favorite topics, and the video was really great :P

  • Can these super magnets be dangerous enough for iron in your blood ?

  • I think that if it's strong enough, at most, you can feel a little bit weird. Not enough for your blood to suddenly pop out of your skin like in X-Men.

  • I dont think that's possible.

    Cause, although you have paramagnetic elements in your body, you're almost 99% made of diamagnetic elements, that are combinated with your paramagnetc elements inside of you.

    So, to do something like, ripping the iron from you're blood is totally impossible, cause if you had that stronge magnetic field on you, you would be bashed away much more early than that could happen.

  • Yeeesh, having worked around an NMR before I got really nervous when he held his keys next to it. One slip and they'll go flying.

  • Woah Brady got a bit frisky there!

  • lol... I posted the comment about the superconducting magnet before the video got to that section (I was pleasantly surprised). I noticed that there was a closeup camera shot of the drop of fluid in the hollow. Is that camera immune to magnetic fields, or will all cameras work... just not the actual recording device (HDD for example)?

  • Magnetism occupied much of my time when I was very young. I want a superconducting magnet... just for bragging rights. (I wouldn't have any actual use for one)

  • Sweeeeeeeet!!!

    Magnetism and magnetic fields is my favorite thing about life :3

  • longest so far

  • "Vomit Comet"

    ^_^

    Glad to see a video on Magnetism it's my favourite topic within physics.

  • awesom !

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