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Force Between Two Current Carrying Conductors
EM-h4a



Show on the overhead projector that long parallel wires with currents in the same (opposite) directions attract (repel).


Fishbane Chapter:   30.1
HRW 9th:   29.03
Reese Chapter:   20.3
SJ 3rd Chapter:   22.8
PIRA DCS classification:   5H40.10

Physics Lecture Demonstrations at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University