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Uploaded by on Nov 17, 2007

Lenz's Law states that the magnetic field of any induced current opposes the change that induces it.
Aluminium is not magnetic but does conduct electricity, so the locally induced currents in the aluminium oppose the field of the magnet. Slowing it down!

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  • That's really cool! Loving your work cuz ;> x

  • take a round neodym and roll it down a copperplate

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  • really NICE heatsink :D

  • This is fake. It only works on the line u let it fall. JOKE xD Good video

  • It just an eddy current effect!

  • you get a better effect if you drop the magnet {slightly fatter magnet} down a thick copper tube....

    thom.

  • physics dawg!!!! dats sum pimp shiznit

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