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- Schematic showing the magnetic dipole moments randomly aligned in a paramagnetic sample (image)
- Schematic showing the magnetic dipole moments aligned parallel in a ferromagnetic material (image)
- Schematic showing adjacent magnetic dipole moments with equal magnitude aligned anti-parallel in an antiferromagnetic material (image)
- Schematic showing adjacent magnetic moments of different magnitudes aligned anti-parallel (image)
- Diagram of a periodic table showing elements coloured according to the type of magnetism they show at room temperature (image)
- Schematic showing the shape of the magnetic field around a bar magnet and a solenoid are identical (image)
- Diagram to show the magnetic moment produced by an electron orbiting the nucleus and that produced by the spin of the electron (image)
- Schematic showing two electrons occupying orbital 1 producing a strong Coulomb repulsion (image)
- Schematic showing two electrons occupying different orbitals (image)
- Variation of saturation magnetisation with temperature for Nickel (image)
- Variation of susceptibility with temperature for Nickel (image)
- Schematic showing how the addition of domains can reduce the external demagnetising field therefore reducing the magnetostatic energy (image)
- Schematic showing the difference in size of field required to achieve the same magnetisation along easy and hard axes (image)
- Schematic showing the attempted change in shape of the domains (i) and the actual change (ii) due to magnetostriction (image)
- Diagram showing domain walls (image)
- Diagram showing the rotation of magnetic moments through a 180° domain wall. (image)
- Diagram showing the rotation of magnetic moments in a tilt boundary (image)
- Diagram showing the rotation of magnetic moments in a thin film in a plan view (image)
- Schematic showing the general
shape of the hysteresis curve with some relevant points marked;
Bs, the saturation magnetisation; Br, the remanent magnetisation; Hc, the coercive field (image) - Schematic showing the shape anisotropy constant for a prolate spheroid (image)
- Animation of the electronic structure of elements (Flash)
- Animation showing initial magnetisation of a ferromagnetic material (Flash)
- Animation of hysteresis showing domains (Flash)
- Animation of hysteresis curves (Flash)

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