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If I am in the lab and i move a dc current carrying wire (a long wire along its axis) near a charge at rest the charge will experience force right?

Absolutely, i am thinking about your point, which is very interesting, as i limited my thinking to a wire carrying a current with a moving charge beside. Looking from the two frames of reference (the lab reference and the moving charge frame of reference) I noticed that I can get same results...

I mean if we are in the reference of frame of the moving charge, and we use in the lorentz law qVXB the velocity difference between the wire and the charge instead which is V in this case instead of V=0 as is normally done.

Hi, I am new here, but there is a question that really bugs me :-(. In Lorentz force why was the velocity defined as relative to the observer and not relative to thesystem generating the magnetic field. By defining it relativ eto the system relativity is not needed to explain how an observer...