Episode 77 - Magnetic Memories
Advent of Computing
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Using a Bar Magnet to Break a Large Transformer Corps
The shape of these cores actually matters more than you might think. Wang took an ordinary transformer corps and ran current through one of its windings. That was enough to magnetize the entire corps. Once magnetized, a closed loop will have a polarity depending on the direction of the field it was exposed too.
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