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This first part of a two part article discusses the interesting and dramatic effects displayed when tiny spheres, usually of magnetic material, move or are driven over the surface of a dielectric. Demonstrations of these phenomena may be made by simple means and at low cost, in terms of the equipment described.
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A. D. Moore (1959) studied this question.
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