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Old 11-15-2004, 11:13 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by DelayedReaction
The action and reaction in this case are the interaction between the electric and magnetic field, and the resulting force acting against the current flow. The force isn't actually transmitted to the railgun itself.
Sure it is, the two fields repel one another and transmit that force to the objects creating the fields. If what you said was true then there would be no resistance when you moved to to negative magnets together, they would just get really hot or absorb the energy in some other way.
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