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Description: Drawing of two homogeneously magnetized flat cylindrical magnets with exactly computed magnetic field lines for the case of vanishing susceptibility (



μ

r


≈ 1


{\displaystyle \mu _{r}\approx 1}

). The two magnets are aligned on top of each other along the cylinder axis and with a narrow gap in-between. This configuration is often used as a dipole magnet to create a strong and roughly uniform magnetic field in the gap, for instance in cyclotrons.
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