Lenz's Law ('Magnetic Braking') is one of my favorite physical phenomena •The moving magnet induces a current in the pipe •This current creates another magnetic field, opposite to the direction of the falling magnet! (Note: the pipe is not magnetized !!)pic.twitter.com/2QBycVNOky
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In the video the magnet is tumbling. Does it not depend on the orientation of the falling magnet?
great question .. in principle it ought to since it changes the flux! The only case we would expect it to not is if the B-field is approximately isotropic.. i haven't worked it out entirely, but there's a paper i linked somewhere else in the comments
