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houlahound said:A non varying DC current in a wire would not emit EM but if the level changed then I expect it would.
A constant level DC current in a loop would not I expect emit EM but then I get tripped up because a circle motion implies acceleration and accelerating electrons radiate??
The device mentioned supplies a power to both the B field and the electrons, this power must compensate for radiative losses or the electrons would spiral out of a fixed radius...I'm so confused.
Did you read all the responses you were given? I could have sworn someone asked you to look up "synchrotron radiation". If you haven't, read this:
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~attwood/srms/2007/Lec08.pdf
Pay attention to page 3, and see what happen for v<<c, and compare that to v~c.
Zz.