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12 questions linked to/from Current in wire + special relativity = magnetism
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Special Relativity and current in wire [duplicate]
If I am a stationary observer and the electrons are moving relative to me,then shouldn't its density increase according to special relativity and thereby create an altogether negative net charge.
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Special relativity and electromagnetism
This Veritasium video explains how electromagnets can be explained by special relativity, and how the magnetic field surrounding a current-carrying wire can also be viewed as an electric field, if ...
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Do moving charges still generate an electrostatic field?
According to my EM professor, an infinite line of current $I$ creates only a magnetostatic field (the regular $\vec B=(\mu_0 I\vec /2\pi r)\vec e_\varphi$ you get from applying Ampère's law), and not ...
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Why don't stationary charge feel force from a current carrying wire?
The current carrying wire doesn't apply any magnetic force on nearby charge $q$( positive stationary charge) because it has 0 velocity in lab frame. We found that there is no force on q by wire. But ...
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Does a current originates a magnetic force against itself?
If electric current creates a magnetic field, and if magnetic field exerts a force in charged particles in movement, is that correct that when a current (in a coil, or something) creates magnetic ...
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How does a wire's magnetic field appear as an electric field, when the wire is neutral? [duplicate]
It is well known that electromagnetic force depends on frame.
I was reading a book, it says
If a charge is moving parallel to a current carrying wire then a magnetic force will be exerted on ...
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Non-zero charge density due to Lorentz contraction in current carrying wires
In trying to answer this question I came across the following problem.
The original question relates to the idea that what looks like a magnetic field in one reference frame, ends up as an ...
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Confusion over the electric field produced by an infinite, neutral, and current-carrying wire
I have a lot of trouble in attempting to understand several aspects of the relativistic explanation of the magnetic field produced by electric currents. To be more specific, my problem is not in the ...
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Why a moving charge + wire with current in a stationary reference has no electric force?
I've saw the Current in Wire special relativity magnetism question, but the answer did not convince me at all.
My doubt is crystal clear.
I know the electrons move in a very high velocity in all ...
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Acting force in moving frame of reference
A charged particle moving parallel to a current carrying wire with some constant velocity. Now the frame of reference is also moving with same constant velocity as that of the particle. In my book it'...
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Why does an electrical current have no effect on a stationary charge
According to special relativity, a stationiary observer would observe a moving object as being shorter. So a moving current in a wire would appear to have a more dense amount of electrons for a ...
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Force felt by a moving charge in a reference frame
current in wire + special relativity = magnetism
I have almost this same question but i am confused in a particular case. Suppose the wire was neutral at the beginning and the charge was also at rest....
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