12.3 - FORCE ON A CURRENT-CARRYING CONDUCTOR IN A MAGNETIC FIELD
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Practice Questions
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What creates a magnetic field?
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
What does Fleming's Left-Hand Rule help us determine?
💡 Hint: Visualize the arrangement of your fingers.
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What does a magnetic field around a long straight wire look like?
💡 Hint: Visualize how a compass would react around the wire.
Fleming's Left-Hand Rule helps to determine the direction of what?
💡 Hint: Use your hand to visualize it!
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A wire is carrying a current of 5 A perpendicular to a magnetic field of strength 0.1 T. Calculate the force on a 0.5-meter section of the wire.
💡 Hint: Be careful to use correct units for each variable.
Two wires are parallel and carry currents in the same direction. What happens to the forces they exert on each other?
💡 Hint: Think about the magnetic field direction related to each wire.
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