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If you have 2 magnets repelling one another, is the force doubled? If you stack 2 magnets together, is the pull force doubled? These are good questions that we receive from time to time The answers are found in the mechanical engineering study of statics, the study of forces on non!moving ob"ects #e$ll try to answer these in plain %nglish, avoiding as much engineering "argon as we can&
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Guestion H2I If you stack 2 magnets together, is the pull force doubled?
=ometimes Eere$s a better answerI If you stack 2 magnets together 8with opposite poles touching9, they will act like a single magnet of the same overall height 8'J, technically this isn$t 0--K true #hen you stack two magnets, you really have a little less magnet material, because you have some layers of plating in the middle that you don$t have with the single magnet =till, it$s a great appro.imation L we find it hard to measure the difference with a pull force gauge 9 *onsider the table of 34 diameter, grade ?72 magnets below, which shows the listed pull force for each magnet If we stack two 0;0C4 thick D60 magnets together, it will act magnetically like a single D62 magnet that is 0;64 thick The force of < 0 lb increases to C 77 lb In this case the force is a bit more than double 8about 2-6K9 1ikewise, if you stack two 0;64 thick D62 magnets together, they$ll act like a single 54 thick D67 magnet The force "umps from C 77 lb to 0- 66 lb This time, we get about 0CMK of the pull force of one D62 magnet L we didn$t quite double it Fs you stack more and more magnets together, this e.ercise becomes a case of diminishing returns The more magnet material you stack up, the less increase in pull force you$ll see F 04 tall D6N- has over M:K of the pull force of a <4 tall D6O-& In a way, this makes perfect sense #e$re measuring the pull force from a magnet to a flat steel surface Fs you increase the height 8or stack more magnets9, each new bit of magnet material you add is farther away from the steel you$re trying to attract to =ince it$s far away, it doesn$t add as much strength Part Number D6-0 D60 D6-< D6E0 D62 D6< Diameter 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P Thickness 0;<2P 0;0CP <;<2P - 0P 0;6 P <;0CP Surface Field (Gauss) 60M 0C-0 2<0Q 27:0 2M:2 <MCPull Force (lb) 0 0: < 07 0C 7 C2 C 77 M 07
Part Number D6E2 D67 D6C D66 D6F D6* D6% D6ND6N6 D6@D6@6 D6O-
Diameter 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P 0;2 P
Thickness - 2P 0;7 P <;6 P 0;2 P :;6 P <;7 P Q;6 P 0P 0 0;2 P 2P 2 0;2 P <P
Surface Field (Gauss) 702< 7CCQ :7M2 :M-< C026 C2C0 C<7C C7-< C:0C:7M C:CQ C:QQ
Pull Force (lb) M 7M 0- 66 0< 7< 07 C0: -: 0: :0C -: 0C C0C 6: 0Q -0Q 20Q <:
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