Magnetic Field and Magnetic Force

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Magnetic force and its examples

Moving charges and current carrying conductors create magnetic fields. Also magnets themselves have magnetic fields. When you keep two magnets close together a force is exerted between them which is a magnetic force. Iron filings placed around a magnet move because a magnetic force acts on them.

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Lorentz force

The total force on a charge moving with velocity in the presence of magnetic and electric fields and , respectively is called the Lorentz force. It is given by the expression:

The magnetic force is normal to and work done by it is zero.

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Net force on a moving electric charge



An electron passes undeflected through perpendicular electric and magnetic fields of intensity and  respectively. Then its  velocity is given by:
For undeflected path

or


   =
   = .
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