• Question: what is a solenoid?

    Asked by dazzy to Usman on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Usman Bashir

      Usman Bashir answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      It is essentially an electric cable coiled in the shape of a cylinder.The purpose of this arrangement is that it creates a fairly uniform magnetic field. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) imaging depends hugely on a uniform magnetic field

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