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Magnetic Materials

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This chapter provides a description of the most common magnetic materials used in electrical engineering and other industrial applications. The first section details the physical quantities used to describe the magnetic properties of materials, while the following sections describe the basic magnetic properties of the five classes of magnetic materials.

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Cardarelli, F. (2018). Magnetic Materials. In: Materials Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38925-7_7

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