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    Magnetic fields are produced by electric currents and affect nearby objects along magnetic field lines. The strength of a magnetic field depends on the material producing it and is measured in Teslas. Magnetic field sources include electric currents in wires which produce concentric circular fields, current loops which concentrate the field in the center, and solenoids which concentrate the field even more. Permanent bar magnets produce closed field lines emerging from the North pole and entering the South pole. The Earth has a similar field to a tilted bar magnet attributed to circulating electric currents in its core.

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    Magnetic fields are produced by electric currents and affect nearby objects along magnetic field lines. The strength of a magnetic field depends on the material producing it and is measured in Teslas. Magnetic field sources include electric currents in wires which produce concentric circular fields, current loops which concentrate the field in the center, and solenoids which concentrate the field even more. Permanent bar magnets produce closed field lines emerging from the North pole and entering the South pole. The Earth has a similar field to a tilted bar magnet attributed to circulating electric currents in its core.

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    Magnetic fields are produced by electric currents and affect nearby objects along magnetic field lines. The strength of a magnetic field depends on the material producing it and is measured in Teslas. Magnetic field sources include electric currents in wires which produce concentric circular fields, current loops which concentrate the field in the center, and solenoids which concentrate the field even more. Permanent bar magnets produce closed field lines emerging from the North pole and entering the South pole. The Earth has a similar field to a tilted bar magnet attributed to circulating electric currents in its core.

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    Magnetic Fields

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    Magnetic fields are produced by electric currents and affect nearby objects along magnetic field lines. The strength of a magnetic field depends on the material producing it and is measured in Teslas. Magnetic field sources include electric currents in wires which produce concentric circular fields, current loops which concentrate the field in the center, and solenoids which concentrate the field even more. Permanent bar magnets produce closed field lines emerging from the North pole and entering the South pole. The Earth has a similar field to a tilted bar magnet attributed to circulating electric currents in its core.

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    MAGNETIC FIELDS

    RLE 3

    WHAT ARE MAGNETIC FIELDS?


    Are produced by electric currents, which can be macroscopic currents in wires, or microscopic currents associated with electrons in atomic orbits. Magnetic field sources are essentially dipolar in nature, having a north and south magnetic pole.

    Areas where an object exhibits magnetic influence


    Idea of magnetic field and magnetic field lines first examined by Michael Faraday & later by James Clerk Maxwell

    Affect neighboring objects along things called magnetic field lines


    Magnetic strength depends on the material that the object is made of The SI unit for magnetic field is the Tesla

    MAGNETIC FIELD SOURCES:

    MAGNETIC FIELD OF CURRENT:


    The magnetic field lines around a long wire which carries an electric current form concentric circles around the wire. The direction of the magnetic field is perpendicular to the wire and is in the direction the fingers of your right hand would curl if you wrapped them around the wire with your thumb in the direction of the current.

    MAGNETIC FIELD IN CURRENT LOOP


    Examining the direction of the magnetic field produced by a current-carrying segment of wire shows that all parts of the loop contribute magnetic field in the same direction inside the loop.

    Electric current in a circular loop creates a magnetic field which is more concentrated in the center of the loop than outside the loop. Stacking multiple loops concentrates the field even more into what is called a solenoid.

    MAGNETIC FIELD IN SOLENOID


    The magnetic field is concentrated in a nearly uniform field in the center of a long selonoid. The field outside is weak and divergent.

    MAGNETIC FORCE IN BAR MAGNET


    The lines of magnetic field from a bar magnet form closed lines. By convention, the field direction is taken to be outward from the North pole and in to the South pole of the magnet. Permanent magnets can be made from ferromagnetic materials.

    MAGNETIC FORCE OF THE EARTH


    is similar to that of a bar magnet tilted 11 degrees from the spin axis of the Earth. The Earth's magnetic field is attributed to a dynamo effect of circulating electric current, but it is not constant in direction.

    LORENTZ FORCE LAW


    Both the electric field and magnetic field can be defined from the Lorentz force law:

    The electric force is straightforward, being in the direction of the electric field if the charge q is positive, but the direction of the magnetic part of the force is given by the right hand rule.

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