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| Feb18-13, 07:52 AM | #18 |
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Moving Charges and Magnetic Moments
A point charge moving at a constant velocity will have the same magnetic field shape as a bar magnet.
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| Feb18-13, 10:10 PM | #19 |
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Probably not possible, but there's a detour. This donut shaped motion of the charge will be equivalent to current flowing through a coiled wire. And we all know the magnetic moment in such a situation. |
| Feb18-13, 10:36 PM | #20 |
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Right! That is what I was thinking! Thank you very much deep838!! (:
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| Feb18-13, 11:49 PM | #21 |
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Do a Google search for "magnetic field of a moving point charge" and "magnetic field of a dipole". |
| Feb19-13, 02:16 AM | #22 |
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but then again, coming back to your original question, i don't think that any type of motion will have a magnetic field!
the charge in circular motion is a very special case! |
| Feb19-13, 02:47 AM | #23 |
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yes moving charges produce a magnetic field.
you can explicitly see this when you have a static charged particle in one frame moving relative to another frame. in relativity, neither electric fields nor magnetic fields are invariant in different frames, but the electromagnetic tensor is. You take the Lorentz transformation of the electromagnetic tensor that describes a static charged particle in the rest frame in order to transform it into the moving frame and write out the terms explicitly. You will find that the B'[itex]_{i}[/itex] terms in the moving frame will have nonzero components related to the E field in the rest frame. |
| Feb20-13, 12:15 AM | #24 |
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i meant "magnetic moment". really sorry for that. So, does any type of motion have a magnetic moment? |
| Feb23-13, 03:20 PM | #25 |
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Actually jtbell, I did the search and they look exactly the same. The only difference is that a point charge has an infinitetismally small distance between it's two magnetic poles.
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| Feb24-13, 04:59 AM | #26 |
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everyone, u r all diverting to a different problem here! we started with magnetic moments and lets stick to that in this thread! start a new one for others!!
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