Electric & Magnetic Fields: Charged Particles Difference

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Electric fields interact with charged particles regardless of their motion, exerting a force parallel to the field lines. In contrast, magnetic fields only affect moving charged particles, generating a force perpendicular to both the particle's velocity and the field lines. If a charged particle moves parallel to a magnetic field, it experiences no force. The key difference lies in the conditions under which each field influences charged particles. Understanding these interactions is crucial for applications in physics and engineering.
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What's the difference between electric and magnetic fields, specifically I someone was to send a charged particle into them? Are there any similarities?
 
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A charged particles only interacts with a magnetic field if it is moving with respect to the field. A moving charge experiences a force in a direction perpendicular to the field lines its velocity if it is not moving parallel to the field. If it is moving parallel to the field, the experienced force is 0.

Electric fields, on the other hand, interact with charged particles even if they are motionless. The force experienced by the particles will be in a direction parallel to the field lines.
 
Sounds like homework to me.
Have you tried looking up the interaction of charged particles with electric and magnetic fields online?
 
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So here is the motional EMF formula. Now I understand the standard Faraday paradox that an axis symmetric field source (like a speaker motor ring magnet) has a magnetic field that is frame invariant under rotation around axis of symmetry. The field is static whether you rotate the magnet or not. So far so good. What puzzles me is this , there is a term average magnetic flux or "azimuthal mean" , this term describes the average magnetic field through the area swept by the rotating Faraday...
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