Re: [Phys-l] Inductive cooking

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

An interesting objection.  Does magnetic steel provide a higher reactive 
impedance  than a
non-magnetic steel of equivalent size and shape? I would think the 
answer is yes.

Or do you think not?

Brian W

Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> No;  I think one of JD's references explains hysteresis loss is more  
> effective than brewer Joule's loss.
>
> bc  thought this back then, but his error was thinking steel's  
> critical point was at a much lower temperature.
>
>
> On 2009, Apr 05, , at 18:16, Brian Whatcott wrote:
>
>   
> > Not a good idea particularly, but a plausible thought.
> >  In hindsight, one can imagine a magnetic steel pan carcass couples  
> > more
> > effectively to a driving coil as a higher lossy reactive impedance,
> > providing a better opportunity to dissipate the drive into the pan  
> > case.
> >     
>
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