Incorrect. Below saturation it will have a low reluctance and so form a preferential path for the flux. Above saturation it looks like air again.
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 August 2006 22:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works On 8/29/06, peatbog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that anything that blocked a magnet's attraction was also > attracted to it, so that there is extra work needed to insert or > remove the shield from between the magnets. Mumetal does not "block" the field. Once mumetal saturates the field is diverted around the mumetal. It "distorts" the field. Terry
