dynamic dipole-dipole magnetic interaction and damped nonlinear oscillations动态取向磁场交互和阻尼非线性振动.pdfVIP

J. Electromagnetic Analysis Applications, 2009, 1: 195-204 195 doi:10.4236/jemaa.2009.14030 Published Online December 2009 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jemaa) Dynamic Dipole-Dipole Magnetic Interaction and Damped Nonlinear Oscillations Haiduke SARAFIAN University College, The Pennsylvania State University, York, USA. Email: has2@ Received July 10th, 2009; revised August 4th, 2009; accepted August 12th, 2009. ABSTRACT Static dipole-dipole magnetic interaction is a classic topic discussed in electricity and magnetism text books. Its dy- namic version, however, has not been reported in scientific literature. In this article, the author presents a comprehen- sive analysis of the latter. We consider two identical permanent cylindrical magnets. In a practical setting, we place one of the magnets at the bottom of a vertical glass tube and then drop the second magnet in the tube. For a pair of suitable permanent magnets characterized with their mass and magnetic moment we seek oscillations of the mobile magnet re- sulting from the unbalanced forces of the anti-parallel magnetic dipole orientation of the pair. To quantify the observed oscillations we form an equation describing the motion of the bouncing magnet. The strength of the magnet-magnet interaction is in proportion to the inverse fourth order separation distance of the magnets. Consequently, the corre- sponding equation of motion is a highly nonlinear differential equation. We deploy Mathematica and solve the equation numerically resulting in a family of kinematic information. We show our theoretical model with great success matches the measured data. Keywords : Dipole-Dipole Magnetic Interaction, Damped Nonlinear Oscillations, Mathematica 1. Introduction pose a practical research project.