Lecture 18: Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism

Magnetic moments in a solid come from the electronic spin, and also its orbital angular momentum. We review how the orbital angular momentum contributes to the magnetic moment. We also use Atom in a Box by Dauger Research to show how this net angular momentum can arise from adding, say, p orbitals together in the right way. We also show how diamagnetism arises from atomic cores. Every material is weakly diamagnetic (meaning it resists having a magnetic field penetrate) due to screening currents which come from the atomic cores. Lecture Audio .

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This episode was published on Mar 28, 2006.

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