Lenz's law and dimensional analysis

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-39

  Pelesko, John A ^a   Cesky, Michael ^a   Huertas, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 12444293760     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1773176     Document Type: Article

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7. There is a boundary layer in time in this problem. The inertial effect may be recovered by a boundary layer analysis. Alternately, the equation for u(t) may be solved exactly.