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usama92pak
Jan 29, 2011, 11:02 PM

Unknown008
Jan 30, 2011, 06:48 AM
Any charge has an electric field surrounding it, radially.

Any charge in motion creates a magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the direction of motion of the charge.

Unknown008
Jan 31, 2011, 09:30 PM
usama92pak does not find this helpful : As a=F/m when charge moves with consantant velocity then F=0 (as a=0) then E=o.

That's why I said PERPENDICULAR because F = ma applies only when the acceleration is in the same direction as the force. Learn your laws well.

What about a current carrying conductor? Charges flow through the conductor at constant speed. Don't they create a magnetic field? Do you know Flemming's Left Hand Rule?