Physics 132 - General Physics II - Professor Bunson
Fall 2001
Today's Lecture (10/5):
Summary:
  • Because there are forces on moving electric charges due to magnetic fields, it makes sense that there is might be a force on a wire that carries a current. The formula for this is similar to the related Lorentz Force Law.



    Historically, this formula came first. Before we knew that currents were caused by moving charge, it was postulated that we might prove it by showing the two laws would predict the same behavior.
Conceptests:

Today's conceptests
Worked Problems:

Not available yet.
Assignments:

Next Reading Assignment (due 10/8)
Next Homework (due 10/10)
Diversion-of-the-week:

This week's diversion is a "Rubik's cube"-like puzzle called Alien Tiles. I haven't gotten very far with it, but I'm hoping to sit down sometime and work out a better solution than the trivial one.

Let me know if you get better than 49 moves!
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