What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube [video]

Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by laureny on Monday February 03, 2014 @06:07PM (#7174208)

> It'd be completely impractical, of course, but a whole lot of fun.

And at the end of the ride, you want to take a selfie and email it to all your friends but you can't because your phone is fried.

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Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by tall on Monday February 03, 2014 @07:54PM (#7174729)

actually not true, modern phones use SSD, and don't really get affected by magnets in the way you might expect.

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Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by laureny on Monday February 03, 2014 @08:10PM (#7174804)

True, they would only get fried if they used electronic components.

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Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by rpenm on Monday February 03, 2014 @09:49PM (#7175185)

If the elevator carries the magnets, the magnetic field relative to the phone is constant, thus no induced current and no fried components.

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Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by dfox on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @08:23AM (#7177189)

Even hard disks are not affected by external magnetic field in the way most people expect. Strong magnetic fields interfere with the operation of drive (seeking voice coil) but accidental erasure of data on platters by external magnetic field is relatively improbable.

Generally most of the damage caused by strong external magnetic fields to any electronics are caused by second order effects, i.e. something gets confused and causes data-destroying failure.

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