Cool Magnet toys

This past Saturday after the AP English workshop me and a couple of other special individuals went to chill in doc!'s room. As I walked around waiting for a functional computer, I stumbled upon a rather cool toy. It was a bunch if individual magnetic balls that were about gram each.

I started experimenting with these balls by rolling them on the table by swinging a chain magnetic balls creating a fluctuating magnetic field. In response to the rotating field the stationary ball started rolling in the towards the chain till it eventually flies up and catches on.

In another experiment I mounted the balls on the board and lo and behold the horizontal structure I formed didn't fall down despite the weight of the structure being like 70+ grams. When you think about it it makes sense, When the ball on the table had enough magnetic force to overcome its weight when it was about 10 cm away from the chain, 70 balls together would have an amazing amount of attractive force to each other and the board. Despite the weight on the ones further from the board pulling the entire structure down, the force between the force between the balls was strong enough to hold it all up. These are really cool doc!

By the way Bobby if you are reading this the labs are done and you don't need to go to Doc!'s room on Sunday