User:Brian P. Josey/Notebook/2010/03/15
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Magnetic YokeThis is probably the best place to buy the cylindrical magnets, K&J Magnets. Their magnets are reasonably priced, and have various sizes. All magnets are neodymium, and magnetized along the axis. The cone magnets that I have have a base diameter of 1/2", and I would like to use cylinders that are about the same size so that there is not unnecessary overlap. So using cylinders with either a 3/8" or 1/2" diameter should be good. I am still trying to find some horseshoe, or other magnets that I like for the bends. I need to know the shape and dimensions of the bends before I can design the rest of the yoke.
Derivatives of Magnetic FieldThe force on a magnetic moment in a magnetic field is given by:
Where F is the force, m is the magnetic dipole and B is the magnetic field. Because the force depends on the gradient of the magnetic field, I can take the derivative of the field along a line connecting two points that I am interested in, and it serves as a decent approximation for the general force: Magnetostatics TutorialHere is the magnetic field strength from the tutorial I did last Wednesday. The magnetic field as a function of length is on the left, and as expected, it is a parabolic with the greatest field in the center of the length. The derivative is on the right and is a little more interesting. Unfortunately, the derivative is not smooth. I am not a hundred percent sure what the cause of this is, I could have had either too large of a mesh size, or too few points, I used 300, for the graph.
Side of Cone to Flat SurfaceThese two are from the model Koch did of the magnetic yoke that we have now. The field is on the left, and the derivative is on the right. For both of them, the cone is on the left side of the graph , and the flat surface is on the right. The field is not that surprising, the yoke was designed to have the greatest field on the cone, and the field lines are directed around the yoke to the flat side. The jump though is a little different, and looking at the data, the field jumps from 1.59688165e-001 to 1.82864671e-001 T in 2.45e-3 inches. Coding it out removes the anomaly, but I'm leaving a note to look at it and fix it tomorrow. Just in case there is some deeper issue with it. Tip of Cone to Center of Flat SurfaceI had two positions in the model to work with. One from halfway up the cone, and the other from the tip of the cone. These two are the field, left, and derivative, right, from the tip of the cone to the center of the flat surface across the gap. Here it is really pronounced how strong the field is near the tip, left side in both pictures. Up too about 0.025 inches, there would be a very strong magnetic force on any magnetic moment, and outside of that, the force is much weaker. This is about four times the thickness of the cover glass that we use, 0.17mm or 0.00669 inches, from the manufacturer. If we keep the magnet close enough to the ferritin, less than the 0.025 inches, then there will be a greater amount of force than farther away. This is also probably why I ran into some trouble with my earlier experiments. There was simply too much of a gap between the tip of the magnet and the ferritin.
Links to Steve's old filesSteve Koch 01:09, 17 March 2010 (EDT): I found some files and moved them to the webpub directory. You can find them here: http://kochlab.org/files/Magnets,%20MEMS,%20etc/Cone,%20Flat%20Magnet%20Modeling%20(Magnet%202)
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