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Re: Artificial Horizon.


Subject: Re: Artificial Horizon.
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes (rodneym@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 17:20:42 EST


Any piece of conductive material will have its motion damped by a
magnetic field. eddy curents can form in anything with significant
size. It has nothing to do with the magnetic properties of the
material, only its conductivity.

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:53:42 -0500, Jared Sherman wrote:

> I stand by what I said. A *strip* of copper will not be dampened by a magnetic field.
Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

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