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From: emcalc@sugar.uu.net (William M. Schmidt)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Plotting Magnetic Fields
Summary: Use the vector potential
Keywords: Plotting Magnets Flux
Message-ID: <3428@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 13 Feb 89 02:15:48 GMT
References: <101@avatar.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <101@avatar.UUCP>, kory@avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh) writes:
> I would like to write a program which will graphicly draw the 
> flux lines between to magnets. I've looked through several physics
> 
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I'd suggest that you work from the vector potential. It's easy in the
2-d case as it only has one component. The field lines are then lines
of constant vector potential.
 
Bill Schmidt
Texas Accelerator Center