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  2. Right-hand rule - Wikipedia

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    When electricity flows (with direction given by conventional current) in a long straight wire, it creates a cylindrical magnetic field around the wire according to the right-hand rule. The conventional direction of a magnetic line is given by a compass needle. Electromagnet: The magnetic field around a wire is relatively weak. If the wire is ...

  3. Oersted's law - Wikipedia

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    The direction of the magnetic field at a point, the direction of the arrowheads on the magnetic field lines, which is the direction that the "north pole" of the compass needle points, can be found from the current by the right-hand rule. If the right hand is wrapped around the wire so the thumb points in the direction of the current ...

  4. Ampère's circuital law - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] He investigated and discovered the rules which govern the field around a straight current-carrying wire: [8] The magnetic field lines encircle the current-carrying wire. The magnetic field lines lie in a plane perpendicular to the wire. If the direction of the current is reversed, the direction of the magnetic field reverses.

  5. Electromagnet - Wikipedia

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    Current through a wire produces a magnetic field (). The field is oriented according to the right-hand rule. The magnetic field lines of a current-carrying loop of wire pass through the center of the loop, concentrating the field there. Magnetic field generated by passing a current through a coil

  6. Lorentz force - Wikipedia

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    Right-hand rule for a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field B. When a wire carrying an electric current is placed in a magnetic field, each of the moving charges, which comprise the current, experiences the Lorentz force, and together they can create a macroscopic force on the wire (sometimes called the Laplace force).

  7. Proximity effect (electromagnetism) - Wikipedia

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    From the right hand rule the field lines pass through the wire in an upward direction. From Faraday's law of induction , when the time-varying magnetic field is increasing, it creates a circular current (E, red loops) within the wire around the magnetic field lines in a clockwise direction.

  8. Faraday's law of induction - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the Kelvin–Stokes theorem with surface Σ, its boundary ∂Σ, and orientation n set by the right-hand rule. The Maxwell–Faraday equation states that a time-varying magnetic field always accompanies a spatially varying (also possibly time-varying), non-conservative electric field, and vice versa. The Maxwell–Faraday ...

  9. Ampère's force law - Wikipedia

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    Two current-carrying wires attract each other magnetically: The bottom wire has current I 1, which creates magnetic field B 1. The top wire carries a current I 2 through the magnetic field B 1, so (by the Lorentz force) the wire experiences a force F 12. (Not shown is the simultaneous process where the top wire makes a magnetic field which ...