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Re:Cow Magnets by marcosdumay on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:46AM (#39991285)
Oh, that's right.

But magnetization is famously path-dependent, so now I'm tending to believe the force will be closer to 1/r^7 when moving on the direction of the magnet, but 1/r^4 when moving away. And not exactly any of those functions.

Re:Cow Magnets by planede on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:51AM (#39992093)
Do you mean that the ferromagnetic material gets magnetized and retains some magnetization while moving away?
Re:Cow Magnets by marcosdumay on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:58PM (#39993785)
Yes.