Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Conductor, AP Physics C/Electricity and Magnetism

Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Conductor

II. Magnetism: Lecture 2 | 64:43 min

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A magnetic field exerts a force on a conductor carrying a current. If the wire is straight, and the field is uniform, the force is given by F = I L x B, where I is the current, L is a vector whose magnitude is the length of the conductor and whose direction is the same as the direction of the current, and B is the magnetic field vector.
If the shape of the wire is arbitrary, the force on a segment ds of the wire is dF = I ds x B. The total force on the wire is obtained by integrating dF over the length of the wire.

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Table of Contents

I. Electricity
	Electric Force	56:18
	Coulomb's Law	87:18
	Electric Field	97:24
	Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution	100:12
	Gauss's Law	87:00
	Application of Gauss's Law, Part 1	66:48
	Application of Gauss's Law, Part 2	79:19
	Electric Potential, Part 1	86:57
	Electric Potential, Part 2	91:50
	Electric Potential, Part 3	69:12
	Electric Potential, Part 4	71:16
	Capacitor	84:14
	Combination of Capacitors	63:23
	Calculating Capacitance	55:14
	More on Filled Capacitors	77:13
	Electric Current	79:17
	Circuits	94:08
	Kirchhoff's Law	102:02
	RC Circuits	80:35
II. Magnetism
	Magnetic Field	98:19
	Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Conductor	64:43
	Torque on a Current Carrying Loop	69:06
	Magnetic Field Produced By Current, Part 1	57:58
	Magnetic Field Produced By Current, Part 2	79:29
	Magnetic Field Produced By Current, Part 3	50:37
	Faraday's Law	70:38
	Motional EMF	60:17
	Induced Electric Field	65:19
	Inductance	71:10
	RL Circuits	85:19
	Circuit Oscillation	82:26
	Maxwell's Equations	72:35