The magnetic flux is a measure of the amount of magnetism, as the physical phenomenon by which materials exert attractive or repulsive forces on other materials is called.
It is calculated from magnetic field (region of space in which a point electric charge moving at a speed suffers the effects of a perpendicular force proportional to both the speed and the field B), the surface on which it acts and the angle of incidence formed between the magnetic field lines and the different elements of the aforementioned surface.
The unit of magnetic flux at the behest of the International System of Measurements is he weber and is called wb, therefore, is that they are known as weberimeters to those devices used to measure magnetic flux. Meanwhile, in the cegesimal system, that system of units based on the centimeter, the gram and the second, the maxwell; in this case, the maxwell honors the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who also in the nineteenth century passed to posterity for his synthesis of the theory of electromagnetism.
The weber or weberio It is equivalent to the magnetic flux that, when passing through a single loop circuit, causes an electromotive force of one volt in it, if the aforementioned flux is canceled in one second as a consequence of the uniform decrease. Weber's name was introduced in honor of the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber, who stood out as such in the 19th century for his contributions in the magnetic field and also as a trainer of future physical professionals.
The magnetic flux is represented graphically through the Greek letter fi, whose symbol is: Φ.
