Ideas for places to put an m08s?

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I just bought an m08s magnet so I can try to science it and try to figure out what potential uses there could be for the spherical magnets. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for where to put it to maximize the amount of sciencing I could do? Ideally it would be a place where I could test both sensing and lifting properties.

My first thought was -p0, but 8mm might be a bit chonky for that location. Maybe +p0 or the knife edge would be better places? I do still have one spare p0 I could sacrifice for science.

Also, if anyone has any experiments they want to see me do, feel free to put those in this thread as well.

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I have a hypothesis that a spherical magnet could give you a more directional sense than other magnet types, since the sphere can rotate itself in place in any direction to align itself with the field (and then be pulled in that direction). In theory, this should work for both static and changing/oscillating fields, since the magnet should easily be able to keep rotating in place every time the field changes orientation.

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it would depend heavily on the frequency vs inertial mass of the magnet, but yes it’s possible :slight_smile:

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