2006/03/31 by Yan Levin, Fernando L. da Silveira, Felipe B. Rizzato · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #Fluid dynamics and aerodynamics studies #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #physics.class-ph #physics.ed-ph #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1119/1.2203645
published as Am. J. Phys. 74, 815 (2006)
openalex publication_date 2006/08/30 · arxiv created 2006/09/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A calculation is presented that quantitatively accounts for the terminal velocity of a cylindrical magnet falling through a long copper or aluminum pipe. The experiment and the theory are a dramatic illustration of Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws.