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Magnetism: Principles, History, Modern Applications and Future Speculations

Jorey Dixon

Ashley Hyde

Aliza Jensen

Clint Wilkinson

Salt Lake Community College, Physics Department, PHYSCSC 1010, Elementary Physics

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Abstract

Magnetism permeates every aspect of our lives. Man’s curiosity and desire to understand

the world around him has led to significant discoveries throughout history. Magnetism was

believed to have been discovered as early as 600 B.C., but even to this day we have yet to fully

understand the power and complexity of the magnetic field. We acknowledge our current

understanding of magnetics by developing applications to improve our lives, such as computers,

transportation, and medical procedures, and energy generation to power them all. As our

understanding of magnetism evolves, so too will the ways in which we apply it. The future of

military technology, transportation, computers, and medicine may well lie in the field of

magnetics.

Keywords: Magnetism, magnets, magnetic poles

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Magnetism: Principals, History, Modern Applications and Future Speculations

Introduction

One of the earliest uses of magnets was in 121 AD when the Chinese designed a simple

compass by suspending a metal rod. Since then, the applications of magnets has progressed

tremendously. Magnets are currently on the front line of modern technology and as time goes by,

it is apparent that magnets have the potential to power some of the greatest tools of modern

society.

History

600 b.c: Lodestone

The history of magnetism started in the early 600 BC with the discovery of loadstone.

The most popular legend accounting for the discovery of magnets is that of an elderly shepherd

named Magnes. Legend has it that Magnes was herding his sheep in an area of Northern Greece

called Magnesia. Suddenly both, the nails in his shoes and the metal tip of his herding staff

became firmly stuck to a large, black rock on which he was standing. To find the source of

attraction he dug up the Earth to find lodestones. Lodestones contain magnetite, a natural

magnetic material Fe3O4 (“historyofmagnets.com”). This type of rock was subsequently named

magnetite, after either Magnesia or Magnes the shepherd himself.

121 a.d: First Reference to a compass

In 121 AD the first reference to a compass was the earliest discovery of the properties of

lodestone was by the Chinese. In 121 AD the Chinese suspended a magnetized iron rod. They

found out that a lodestone would always point in a north-south direction if it was allowed to

rotate freely. The Chinese developed the mariner's compass more than 4000 years ago. The

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earliest mariner's compass consists of a spoon-shaped magnetite object with a smooth bottom,

set on a polished copper surface. When pushed it rotated freely and usually came to rest with the

handle pointing South. The rod pointed to the magnetic north and south poles.

Stories of magnetism date back to the first century B.C in the writings of Lucretius and

Pliny the Elder. Pliny wrote of a hill near the river Indus that was made entirely of a stone that

attracted iron. He mentioned the magical powers of magnetite in his writings. For many years

following its discovery, magnetite was surrounded in superstition and was considered to possess

magical powers, such as the ability to heal the sick, frighten away evil spirits and attract and

dissolve ships made of iron.

People soon realized that magnetite not only attracted objects made of iron, but when

made into the shape of a needle and floated on water, magnetite always pointed in a north-south

direction creating a primitive compass. This led to an alternative name for magnetite, that of

lodestone or "leading stone" (historyofmagnets.com).

1600: Static Electricity- De Magnete

In the 16th century, William Gilbert(1544-1603), the Court Physician to Queen Elizabeth,

proved that many other substances are electric (from the Greek word for amber, elektron) and

that they have two electrical effects. When rubbed with fur, amber acquires resinous electricity;

glass, however, when rubbed with silk, acquires vitreous electricity. Electricity repels the same

kind and attracts the opposite kind of electricity ( Dewitt. G, Paul, Conceptual Physics, pg. 425).

Gilbert also studied magnetism and in 1600 wrote "De Magnete" which gave the first rational

explanation to the mysterious ability of the compass needle to point north-south: the Earth itself

was magnetic. "De Magnete" opened the era of modern physics and astronomy and started a

century marked by the great achievements of Galileo, Kepler, Newton and others.

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Gilbert recorded three ways to magnetize a steel needle: by touch with a loadstone; by

cold drawing in a North-South direction; and by exposure for a long time to the Earth's magnetic

field while in a North-South orientation.

1740: First Commercial Magnet

Gowen Knight produces the first artificial magnets for sale to scientific investigators and

terrestrial navigators. The magnets were a navigation tool used to determine the position of the

ship using terrestrial landmarks such as light house, buoys, islands, and other fixed objects.

The Principals Behind Magnets and Magnetism

Types of magnets

There are a variety of magnets, but they usually fall into one of these three categories: permanent

magnets, temporary magnets, and electromagnets.

Permanent Magnets/Natural Magnets. Also known as natural magnets, permanent

magnets are a type of magnet that retains its magnetic field after it has been removed from

another magnetic field. “There are 4 classes of permanent magnets, Neodymium Iron Boron,

Samarium Cobalt, Alnico, and Ceramic or Ferrite. (Hoadley, 1998)”

Temporary Magnets. Temporary magnets are materials that act like permanent magnets

while in a magnetic field, although they lose their magnetic property when they leave that

magnetic field.

Electromagnets. Electromagnets are magnets created when you have a wire with an

electric current running through them. Stronger electromagnets are created when the wire is

coiled around a core.

Magnetic Properties

We make magnets work by utilizing the magnetic poles, forces, fields and the domains of

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the magnet, by manipulating these, we can make magnets to do all sorts of things.

Poles. Magnets have poles, a north and a south, these poles have properties described by

Paul G. Hewitt: “Like poles repel each other; opposite poles attract” (Hewitt, 2009). The poles

also attract certain elements like iron, steel, and nickel and slightly repel others like water and

boron. These poles become pronounced in temporary magnets when the magnetic domains

become aligned. When they are aligned they also increase the strength of the magnetic field

surrounding the magnet.

Fields. A magnetic field surrounds a magnet, the field itself is created by relative motion

of the electronic charge passing through the object. Electric and magnetic fields are very similar,

and work in tandem with each other. Figure 1 shows an example of a magnetic field.

Figure 1: Magnetic Field

Domains. A magnetic domain is an area of an object that has lined up due to a strong

magnetic force.. In unmagnetized iron, the domains are random. In a strong magnet, the domain's

north and south poles are all lined up. Figure 2 demonstrates how the relationship between

domains of an object, what happens when they are lined up, and the stronger the magnetic field

gets.(The red arrow represents the strength of the magnetic field).

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Electricity and Magnetism

Electromagnets. Electromagnets are created when a when a wire is coiled and electric

current is running through the wire. The electromagnet becomes much stronger if it has a core, of

iron or some other material. It can however reach a limit to its strength, as quoted here:

“As the current flowing around the core increases, the number of aligned atoms

increases and the stronger the magnetic field becomes. At least, up to a point.

Sooner or later, all of the atoms that can be aligned will be aligned. At this point,

the magnet is said to be saturated and increasing the electric current flowing

around the core no longer affects the magnetization of the core itself.(Gagnon,

2012)”

Electric fields and magnetic fields. When a moving electric charge passes through a a magnetic

field it gets deflected, When a moving charge in a wire gets deflected, it can cause the wire, to

distort according to the power of the magnet, and the polarity of both the magnet and the current

flowing through the wire

Electric and Magnetic calculations

The fun stuff, or rather the more complicated stuff that physicists use to make their

evaluations and observations.

Interaction between magnetic poles. The force of interaction between 2 poles is calculated by

this first equation in Table 1. The second equation, Coloumbs law, is very similar and used to

Figure 2 (Hoadley, 1998) Magnetic domains relative to the strength of a magnet

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describe “the relationships between electrical force, charge, and distance.(Hewitt, 2009)”

p1p2

F= --------

d²

q1q2

F=k----------

d²

Figure 3: Interaction between 2 poles Coloumbs law

Math and terms. This was best explained by Rick Hoadley:

“In order to create and control magnetic fields in an exact way, we need to

carefully understand how the strength of magnetic fields change depending on

how far away you are from the magnet, what shape the magnet is, or if it is a

solenoid or electromagnet. We also need to understand how various materials

react to magnetic fields. In addition, we need to know what to call different

parameters of magnets and fields and strengths and densities and so forth so we

can intelligently communicate with one another.”

It may sound easy, but the equations look more complicated than they sounds. Table 1 displays

Maxwell's equations, while table 2 is the key to understanding the equations.

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Symbol Meaning MKS units Gaussian units

magnetic induction (tesla) (gauss)

velocity of light (meters per second) (centimeters per second)

electric displacement (newtons per coulomb) (dynes per statcoulomb)

electric field strength (newtons per coulomb) (dynes per statcoulomb)

force (newton) (dyne)

magnetic field

intensity (amperes per meter) (gauss)

current density (amperes per square

meter) (gauss per meter)

magnetization (amperes per meter) (gauss)

charge (coulomb) (statcoulomb)

volume charge density (coulomb per cubic

meter)

(statcoulomb per cubic

centimeter)

velocity (meters per second) (centimeters per second)

Table 2: Defining Maxwell's equations

Table 1: Maxwell's Equations

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Commercial Use of Magnets

The use of magnets in modern society is vast. From simple refrigerator magnets to

computer hard drives, magnets are very prevalent in our daily lives. Magnets are found in

televisions, credit cards, speakers and computers. Maglev trains use the force of magnets to

propel trains over 300 miles per hour. Magnets are also used in the medical field and in

alternative energy.

Electromagnets and Modern Technology

Computer hard drives. Magnetism plays an important role in the technological

advancements in our society. Computer hard drives, for example, use magnets to store and read

information. Hard drives store information on magnetic disks called platters and use

electromagnets to read or write information. The electromagnet in a read/write head leaves

information on the hard drive by sending electrical impulses that leave positive or negative

magnetic polarities on the platter disk. These magnetic charges translate into 1's or 0's that are

later read by the read/write head (Museum of Science). Figure 6 shows a read/write head

encoding information onto a platter.

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Figure 6: Platter disk and read/write head

Television screens. Before the invention of plasma and LCD screens, magnets were used

in CRT television screens. Inside the television, electrons are shot at the back of the screen which

is covered with phosphor that lights up when excited by the electrons. Magnetic fields within the

television are used to guide the electrons to particular parts of the screen and to hit certain spots

of colored phosphor. This produces a full sized and colorful image, rather than a spot on the

screen (Marshall 2012). If a powerful magnet is placed by a CRT television, the magnet field is

disturbed and the image on the screen becomes distorted.

Speakers. Magnets are also used in the function of speakers. A permanent magnet is

placed behind the coil of an electromagnet. The polarity of the electromagnet changes rapidly

causing the coil be repelled or attracted to the permanent magnet which results in a vibration. A

cone surrounding the vibrating electromagnet amplifies the vibrations and guides the sound

waves out of the speaker (Institute of Physics). The vibrations frequency determines the pitch of

the sound and the amplitude affects the volume. If the volume of speakers is turned all the way

up, the vibrations of the electromagnet can be seen by noticing the pulsating cone covering.

Magstripes. The black strips on the back of credit cards, debit cards, and ATM cards use

magnets to store information. The magnetic strip, often called a magstripe, is made out of iron

oxide particles which are needle shaped and easily oriented in particular directions by devices

that excerpt a strong magnetic force over a small area. The iron fillings can be oriented to have a

north pole or south pole which encodes information onto the magstripe (Association). If a strong

magnet is placed next to a magstripe, the iron particles will be rearranged an the information is

lost.

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Maglev (Magnet Levitation)

Mechanism. Maglev trains (short for magnetic levitation) are powerful trains powered by

magnets. The Maglev train track, also called the guideway, is lined with electromagnetic coils

that push against magnets on the underside of the train. The opposite polarities on the train and

guideway allow the Maglev train to levitate 1 to 10 cm above the guideway. Once the train is

levitating, the electromagnet coils on the sides of the guideway alternate their polarities to propel

the train forward. The magnets in front of the train attract the magnets on the train pulling it

forward. Meanwhile the magnets behind the train repel the magnets on the train which pushes the

train forward (Powell, Gordon 2005). Maglev trains can reach speeds over 300 miles per hour,

over half as fast as the fastest commercial airplane. The trains high speeds has much to do with

the lack of friction (because the train is levitating), the trains sleek aerodynamic design, and the

power of magnets.

Shanghai Transrapid Line. The first Maglev train was built and tested in Shanghi, China

in 2002 and still runs today. This Maglev train is called the Shanghi Transrapid line. The 19 mile

Shanghi Transrapid line travels 276 miles per hour. A trip on the Shanghi Transrapid line travels

19 miles in 10 minutes. The same trip would take an hour in a taxi. By 2010, nearly 100 miles

will be added to the Sanghi Transrapid line, making it the first Maglev line to connect two cities

(Powell, Gordon 2005).

Benefits and future plans. Maglev trains have many benefits aside from being time

efficient. The environmental impact Maglev trains have is much less than other traditional modes

of transportation. Maglev trains run on electricity, so there is no carbon dioxide emissions. In

addition to being energy efficient, Maglev trains require less maintenance than other means of

transportation. Maglevs do not have engines the way motor vehicles do, and parts on a Maglev

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train last longer and have less wear because they are hardly, if ever, in contact with the ground.

Overall, Maglevs are more durable and last longer. Furthermore, Maglev trains are incredibly

quite which is advantageous to surrounding communities. Constructing Maglev guideways is an

incredibly expensive process, but once the train is installed and built, it is cheaper to run than

airplanes, cars, and traditional trains (Powell, Gordon 2005). Image 7 shows the Shanghi

Transrapid line.

Figure 7: Maglev Train

The advantages of Maglev trains has influenced many countries to invest in future

projects. Cities in Japan, Germany, the United States and many other countries have expressed

plans for future Maglev trains.

Medical uses: MRI scanners

Magnets play an important role in the medical field. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

scanners are machines used to create images of the human body. MRI scanners are used to detect

cancer, tumors, torn ligaments, multiple sclerosis and other anomalies within the body. MRI

machines are enormous tubes that patient enter while laying down on their back. A large, circular

superconducting magnet lines the tube that patients enter. The gauss is a common unit of

measurement used to measure the strength of a magnet. The magnet in a typical MRI scanner

creates a field of 5,000 to 20,000 gauss. To put into perspective how strong MRI magnets are,

note that the Earth's magnetic field is 0.5 gauss (Gould).

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The large magnet in a MRI scanner aligns hydrogen atoms in the body, which are usually

spinning, parallel to the magnetic field. Nearly half of the hydrogen atoms are directed north, and

nearly half a directed south; these atoms cancel each other out. There are a few remaining

hydrogen atoms that are not canceled with an opposing faced atom. These remaining atoms are

excited when radio frequencies are sent through the body. The energy released by the excited

atoms is sent to a computer that uses the information to create an image (Gould).

Future Speculations And Applications

Although there are already many commercial uses for magnets, magnetics is an ever

changing field where advances are limited seemingly only by what we can imagine. As our

understanding of magnets and magnetic fields evolves the number of fields where magnetics can

be applied expands too. Some of the fields where magnetics are on the cusp of implementation

are in the environmental field, military applications, the medical field, and in the field of

information and technology. These fields will each be explored and the applications that are

applicable to them described in some detail.

Environmental application: magnetic detergents

Every day we hear about the great and often times detrimental impact various industries

have on our environment. On April 20, 2010 at 9:45 PM local time an explosion occurred

onboard the Deepwater Horizon deep sea drilling rig owned by Transocean and BP. This

explosion and the subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig, are what led to what is now

the largest ever oil spill in history. The spill continued for 87 days with oil gushing into the ocean

at an estimated rate of 62,000 barrels of oil per day, eventually tapering off to an estimated

53,000 barrels per day. The total amount of oil that escaped the well was 4.9 million barrels

(205.8 million gallons). BP was only able to capture 800,000 barrels of oil that never touched

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the ocean, leaving 4.1 million barrels that did (“On Scene Coordinator,” 2011). The reason that

this oil spill is being referenced is as such. The impact that this spill had on the environment was

catastrophic, from killing or contaminating marine life, to destroying vegetation both in the

ocean and on the hundreds of miles of coastlines where the oil eventually washed ashore. The

effects will still be felt years from now, as efforts are continuously made to clean up stray and

dissolved oil. Detergents have been an effective tool in fighting against oil spills for years. The

problem is that the detergents leave behind harmful byproducts that until now have not been able

to be fully removed from the environment. By adding iron to the molecular makeup of the

detergents, it has given them a magnetic quality which allows them to be manipulated by

magnetic fields (Brown, et al., 2012). This would not only make it possible to control the spread

and cleanup of oil spills, but it would also make it possible to reuse and recycle the detergent

resulting in much less waste.

Military Application: Railgun

Almost everyone has heard of a rail gun. It is projectile device which requires no

gunpowder. It instead uses electric currents to induce electromagnetic fields which create a force

that can launch a projectile at much greater velocities than standard weapons which use

gunpowder. The force that causes the projectile to fire is described by Lorentz Force Law. In

simplest terms Lorentz Force Law, states that the sum of the forces that act upon a charge include

both a magnetic force as well as an electric force (Hughes, 2005). What this means is that as the

current travels up one rail, across the projectile, and back down the opposing pole, it creates

magnetic fields in both rails and also in the projectile. The flow of current in each of the rails is

such that the fields flow in the same direction between the rails. The projectile has current

flowing through it producing a magnetic field which interacts with the combined field from the

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rails inducing a force on the projectile. The projectile travels along the rails at a rate

proportionate to the supplied current minus the drag caused by wind and friction. Although rail

guns have been built and tested since the 1980’s, a practical use has yet to be found for them.

There are two main problems with rail guns. The first is that they require an excessive amount of

current to generate the required magnetic fields for propelling the projectile. The second

problem is linked to the first. Enormous amounts of current generate enormous amounts of heat.

Heat is a problem because in sufficient quantities, it will cause deformation and degradation of

the metals used to construct the rails that conduct the electricity and guide the projectile in its

path. It’s the same principle as with firearms. If the barrel gets too hot, the gun won’t shoot

straight, and if it gets excessively hot it would deform the barrel to the extent that it would make

the weapon unsafe to fire. The rails in a rail gun are effectively the barrel of the gun. Figure 8

shows the mechanisms of a railgun.

Figure 8:

Rail Gun

Medical Application: Antimagnet Shielding

Another development that has potential as either a military or a medical application is a

new theoretical material being called an anitmagnet. It is actually a combination of materials.

On the inside would be a layer of superconductor material and on the outermost layer would be a

layer of isotropic magnetic material (Sanchez, Navau, Prat-Camps, & Chen 2011). An isotropic

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magnetic material is a material that contains one or more rare earth metals, comprising up to one

third of its weight. This new antimagnet as it is called is designed to shield a magnetic field

inside of it from all outside magnetic field. So effectively magnetic fields can’t escape from it,

and outside magnetic fields do not affect it at all. The importance of this is two-fold. First, as it

applies to the military, we can shield our ships and various other vehicles from magnetic mines,

both in the water and on land. In addition to shielding our military from potential threats from

magnetic mines, an antimagnet could shield a pacemaker or a cochlear implant inside of an

patient so that they can receive medical tests that they might otherwise be excluded from, such as

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Information and technology: heat controlled magnetic storage

Computers have come a long way since they were invented. Where once a single

computer could fill multiple floors of an office building, it now fit in the palm of a hand. Where a

computer program was once stored on long sequences of punch cards, it can now fit on a

microchip the size of a fingernail or smaller. Even music and media have evolved thanks to

magnetism and the advent of microchips and microprocessors. It once took hours to download

files, where now it takes only seconds or minutes. Technology has increased by leaps and

bounds in the last 25 years. No matter how fast technology gets, it still doesn’t hold a candle to

the processing power of the human brain. Imagine if it could though. Imagine if a computer

could rival the human brain. Well that may just be what a group of international researchers led

by the University of York’s, Department of Physics have discovered. They have shown that heat

can create the same effects that a magnetic field can in terms of storing data. They have shown

that tiny bursts of heat can cause changes in magnetization. In laymen’s terms, heat can be used

to change the polarity of a portion of storage media. Heat can be used to program the 1’s and 0’s

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into your computer which make up computer programs without the need for a magnetic field.

The significance of being able to write a program without the use of a magnetic field cannot be

overstated. The following is excerpt from an article for the University of York, News and Events:

York physicist Thomas Ostler said: "Instead of using a magnetic field to record

information on a magnetic medium, we harnessed much stronger internal forces

and recorded information using only heat. This revolutionary method allows the

recording of Terabytes (thousands of Gigabytes) of information per second,

hundreds of times faster than present hard drive technology. As there is no need

for a magnetic field, there is also less energy consumption." (“Scientists record,”

2012, 3).

With the potential of such computing speeds nearing reality, the door is open to a

whole new world of opportunity for discovery.

Conclusion

Today scientist are examining how the phenomenon of magnetism has made a great

contribution to the technological revolution. Throughout the years human kind has discovered

the principle physics, commercial application and properties of magnetism and how these

properties of magnetism permeate everything on Earth. Extensive research and development in

the field has deepened our understanding of magnetic science and today humankind is better

equipped than ever before to harness the power of magnetism. The application of magnetism is

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diverse and extends to almost all fields of science right from critical medical diagnosis to space

engineering and information technology.

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