Physikalisches Kolloquium

May 28, 2024 at 4:15 p.m. in HS KPH

Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid
Institut für Physik
friederike.schmid@uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Concettina Sfienti
Institut für Kernphysik
sfienti@uni-mainz.de

Magnetic Marbles’ Mantras: Dipole Clusters, Catastrophe Machines, and Irrational Gears
Prof. Dr. Ingo Rehberg (University of Bayreuth)


Spherical magnets are an invaluable but affordable physics toy! While vividly demonstrating chemical, physical and mathematical problems, they can also greatly inspire creativity: Questions concerning the favoured state of dipole cluster configurations lead – via an encounter with tipping points – to the invention of magnetic gears based on degenerate continua. Open source animations and patent-free hardware to play with shall garnish this triptychon.


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