Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Right hand rules are awesome!!!

The genius Mr.Oersted came up with brilliant right hand rules.
As stated in previous post the right hand rule shows either the direction of the current or the direction of the magnetic field if given the information of one or the other.
The right hand rule two has same conditions as right hand rule one but instead of the thumb pointing towards the current flow it points towards the north pole of the magnet and the curling fingers point toward the current flow.
Faraday also was a genius and came up with a right hand rule three and that stated if a conductor carrying current is placed between opposite poles of a magnet, a force will act on the conductor. The right hand kicks again as in order to find out which way the conductor will go, the straight fingers must point towards the direction of the magnetic lines and the thumb must point towards the direction of the current and the face of the palm will show which way the force will act upon the conductor.
those are three major rules regarding electromagnetism.

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