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Lecture 21: Mean Field Approach to Ferromagnetism artwork
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Lecture 21: Mean Field Approach to Ferromagnetism

Solid State Physics by Prof. Carlson

Apr 6, 2006Education

We started off today with a demonstration of Barkhausen Noise in ferromagnets. (Your refrigerator magnets are ferromagnets.) If you've ever used a permanent magnet to magnetize a paperclip, you know that not all magnetic...

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