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Magnetic complex reluctance

Imagine you have a bunch of marbles, and you want to move them from one bucket to another. But, there's a wall between the two buckets that the marbles can't pass through. You have to divert the marbles through a maze to get them to the other side.

Now, imagine the marbles are like tiny magnets. When you try to pass them through that wall, they have a hard time because they are attracted to the wall itself. So, you have to use a lot of energy to move the magnets through the maze and get them to the other side.

This is kind of like what happens in a magnetic circuit. If you have a bunch of magnetic materials and you want the magnetic force to flow through them, it's like moving the marbles through the maze. Depending on the shape and materials, the magnetic force might have a hard time passing through or might be attracted to certain parts of the circuit.

This "resistance" to magnetic force is called magnetic reluctance. When you have a complex magnetic circuit, made up of different materials and shapes, it can be difficult to calculate how much reluctance there is. This is where magnetic complex reluctance comes in - it's a way of measuring this resistance to magnetic force in more complicated circuits.