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  1. RichardBladh

    The amount of enery to move a magnet

    Hi all! @IRstuff - you are probably right - or the fact that I haven't read _enough_ about magnets... @Compositepro - that was the analogy I was looking for and what I suspected was the case. Damn, it would be nice with a "free lunch" wouldn't it ;-) Interesting field nonetheless and I...
  2. RichardBladh

    The amount of enery to move a magnet

    Thank you all for your quick responses! As I guessed, no free lunches here. I completely understand the concept of conservation of energy but I somehow imagined that you could harness some "stored energy" in the magnets. When I say stored energy I mean the fact that some forces are at work...
  3. RichardBladh

    The amount of enery to move a magnet

    Hi all! Maybe this is a dumb question but I have to know for sure. If I have a series of magnets that is aligned one after another in one straight line, with each polarity reversed so that they repell eachother. The magnets can only be pushed along the line. Moving one of the magnets in one...

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