How strong is a 1 TESLA?

Question

I know that one Telsa is 10,000 Gauss but I want to know how that cant be interpreted into lbf between two metals...i.e.

if two bars of iron have 1 Telsa of magnetic force between them then how much lbf does that feel like.....with varying distances. between 1-5cm

Answer 1

The tesla is equal to one weber per square meter.

The weber may be defined in terms of Faraday's law, which relates a changing magnetic flux through a loop to the electric field around the loop. A change in flux of one weber per second will induce an electromotive force of one volt.
.

Answer 2

You have to specify the shape of the magnets and the strength of each - but to give you an idea, suppose you have 2 equal length magnets and they have equal strength Bo (this is the magnetic field, in Teslas, close to the surface). Then the force between the two magnets is proportional to the square of Bo and to the inverse square of the distance between the 2 faces.

For the complete equation, which you can use to get the actual force for a given bar magnetic configuration, try this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet.

Answer 3

First of all, you cannot have 1 tesla of "magnetic force" as the unit tesla measures magnetic field strength, not force. Only moving charged particles feel a force as a result of a magnetic field.

I have found a wikipedia article which gives you a good definition of what a Tesla actually is.

Answer 4

The Tesla is the SI unit of magnetic flux density. It does not relate directly to a force between metallic objects, although a complex formula for the force between two bar magnets is given in the reference below (half-way down the page) The answer given by Nicholas refers to the force on a current-carrying conductor of given length in a region of flux density 1T, and is not related to the problem you are asking about.

Answer 5

when you find out let me know, i thought the tesla was an electric weapon.