APPLICATION

Magnetism refers to physical phenomena

arising from the force between magnets,
objects that produce fields that attract or
repel other objects. There are a lot of
applications for this such as:
Magnetic Cards

The stripe on the back of a credit card is a

magnetic stripe, often called a magstripe.
The magstripe is made up of tiny ironbased magnetic particles in a plastic-like
film. Each particle is really a very tiny bar
magnet about 20 millionths of an inch
long.
Your card also has a magstripe on the

back and a place for your all-important

signature.
The magstripe can be "written" because
the tiny bar magnets can be magnetized
in either a north or South Pole direction.
The magstripe on the back of the card is
very similar to a piece of cassette tape
fastened to the back of a card.
Instead of motors moving the tape so it
can be read, your hand provides the
motion as you swipe a credit card
through a reader or inserts it in a reader at
the gas station pump.

Magnets on speakers

There are actually two magnets in a

common audio speaker. There is one
permanent magnet attached to the
framework of the speaker, and one
electromagnet attached to the cone of the
speaker (usually Mylar now instead of
paper). The wires that go to the coil of
wire on the pack of the cone supply the
current to an air core coil, which produces
an electric field that either repels or
attracts to the permanent magnet,
depending on the instantaneous polarity.
The higher the frequency of the electric
current being sent by the amplifier, the
faster the field is set-up, broken down, and
re-set-up in the other direction, so the
faster the cone moves back and forth.
Because all the cone does is move air, if it
is moved back and forth fast, you hear a
high tone from the vibration. Low
frequency current produces low frequency
tone. Large amount of current, big
movements of the coil and cone,

producing loud tones, and small amounts

of current will produce small movements

of the cone.
The magnet is part of the 'motor' of the
sub. The coil inside the magnet has the
coil acts as an electromagnet and pulls
itself up or pushes itself down moving the
cone of the speaker. The bigger the
magnet, the stronger the magnetic field
inside the speaker where the coil is.

SOURCES:
http://www.livescience.com/38059magnetism.html
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?
p=magnetic-stripes
http://www.physics.org/articlequestions.asp?id=54