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Common misconception. It is mainly not resistive heating that destroys the coil; before resistive heating of a significant degree can occur, the coil physically
by eigenloss 8y ago
Common misconception. It is mainly not resistive heating that destroys the coil; before resistive heating of a significant degree can occur, the coil physically implodes from the force, and this is gainfully used to further concentrate the magnetic flux. Please see the sixth paragraph of the linked article.
- jacquesm 8y agoExactly, the whole point of the rate of change is to get the field up to strength before the materials give way. Which makes me wonder whether there is a highest magnetic field that you could create given 'ordinary' matter.
- kmm 8y agoInteresting. During my BSc in physics, I did some experiments with single turn coils, and they certainly formed plasma. One of the most interesting phenomena we noticed was plasma conduction, where the metal vapor of which the coil previously consisted started to conduct, giving two distinct peaks of the magnetic field. The setup described in the article is different, with a secondary coil, so I was mistaken.