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When a magnet is dropped through the copper pipe, why does it fall slower than the...

When a magnet is dropped through the copper pipe, why does it fall
slower than the aluminum pellet? Is energy conserved when magnet falls? If not, where does
the missing (or gained) energy go (or come from). How would this be different if the pipe was
made of PVC?

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This is an excellent demonstration of Lenz's law and eddy currents.

Magnetic fields are the result of electric currents. Changing a magnetic field (moving a magnet) next to a non-magnetic metal will induce an electric field (a voltage difference) in the metal, which subsequently generates a magnetic field with an opposite orientation with respect to your magnet.

When your magnet moves next to a metal it creates these fields, but the fields act in a very specific way. They want to cancel out the magnetic field in the metal, because metals don

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