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FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research

Posted by timothy on from the research-and-fun dept.

spence calder writes "FSU's High Magnetic Field Lab, more specifically my Kenpo teacher, just broke 7 world records, and brought the record for a superconducting magnet to 25 Tesla. Check it out at FSView and a more detailed article here. Now if only our football team was that cool." And if you'd like your magnetic toys to shoot metal bits, Jason Rollette points to his railgun project, which looks like good, clean, high-voltage fun.

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  1. Re:College Sports by Pii · · Score: 2, Insightful
    And, praytell, what do you think they use to pay for all of these academic endeavors?

    At FSU, Seminole Football pays the bills. This is the Magnet that Bobby Bowden built. Even if none of the revenue paid for this research directly, it paid for a lot of other programs that would have been competing for those dollars at budget time.

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  2. Re:25 Tesla by gunnarE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your explanation of the cross product is sligtly wrong. I think you mean

    | A x B | = |A| |B| sin[theta]

    i.e. you forgot the magnitde on the left hand side and it's sin instead of cos