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### Can magnetic force do work? [duplicate]

I have been told numerous times that magnetic force do no work at all but I have some trouble digesting this fact. Now suppose we have two straight wire with some current, they certainly can feel ...
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### Work done by magnetic forces [duplicate]

I have read in textbooks (such as Griffiths electrodynamics) that magnetic forces do no work. Then i don't see how a magnetic force does no work when a magnet is attracting or repelling another magnet....
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### How can magnets be used to pick up pieces of metal when the force from a magnetic field does no work?

I learned that the force from a magnetic field does no work. However I was wondering how magnets can be used to pick up pieces of metal like small paperclips and stuff. I also was wondering how ...
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### Conservation of Energy in a magnet

When a permanent magnet attracts some object, lets say a steel ball, energy is converted into for instance kinetic energy and heat when attraction happens, and they eventually collide. Does this imply ...
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### What is the mechanism by which magnetic fields do work?

I've seen some conflicted answers to this question in texts and on the web, in the case of a dipole, for example. Do magnetic fields do work directly, or is it their induced electric fields that do ...
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### How can I use a magnet to lift a paperclip?

This question has been asked already, but no satisfying answer came up. All the answers seem to push the problem further, but do not explain clearly what is going on. I will reformulate it for a ...
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### Work is not done by the magnetic field?

According to my text book: The Lorentz Force F on a charged particle moving in an electromagnetic field is given by: $$F= qE + q(v\times B)$$ then it states that "it is to be pointed out that only ...
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### Experimental evidence showing the kinetic energy of an electron changes in a static non-uniform magnetic field?

In a previous question, Does a magnetic field do work on an intrinsic magnetic dipole?, one highly rated answer suggested that static magnetic fields do work on intrinsic magnetic dipoles in a non-...
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### When work is performed solely by magnetism, is there an equivalent loss of energy from the magnetic field?

When two magnets are placed within appropriate proximity and released, the attractive force will perform work and bring them together. Work is performed overcoming friction. Can we measure a ...