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Can someone provide me with some original experiments conducted which verified the Lorentz magnetic force : F = q(v X B).

Google does not give me any links except to explanations of the Lorentz force law.
 
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Doc Al said:
Check out J.J. Thomson's experiments on electrons (in 1897).
Thomson's well known work is in charge/mass ratio of of the electrons. Textbooks on the magnetic field don't give any hit on any original quantiative experimental verification of the magnetic force.
 
avicenna said:
Thomson's well known work is in charge/mass ratio of of the electrons.
Which makes use of and confirms the Lorentz force law.
 
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avicenna said:
Thomson's well known work is in charge/mass ratio of of the electrons. Textbooks on the magnetic field don't give any hit on any original quantiative experimental verification of the magnetic force.

I don't understand this. My students in intro physics class do this experiment as part of the course. In fact, this is a rather common undergraduate experiment in general physics courses.

Here's a demo:



.. and here's an example of the lab instruction that students do to perform this experiment:

https://ixnovi.people.wm.edu/phys251/web_manuals/emratio.pdf
http://www1.phys.vt.edu/~labs/phys3324/spring11/ph3324_lab1.pdf

So to answer the question in the title: Heck, yeah!

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
I don't understand this. My students in intro physics class do this experiment as part of the course. In fact, this is a rather common undergraduate experiment in general physics courses.

Here's a demo:



.. and here's an example of the lab instruction that students do to perform this experiment:

https://ixnovi.people.wm.edu/phys251/web_manuals/emratio.pdf
http://www1.phys.vt.edu/~labs/phys3324/spring11/ph3324_lab1.pdf

So to answer the question in the title: Heck, yeah!

Zz.

The video experiment has nothing to do with verification of the magnetic force.
 
Vanadium 50 said:
What exactly are you looking for?
Is it verification of the electric force?
Is it verification of the magnetic force?
Is it verification that you can vectorially add the forces?
Is it that the coefficient on the magnetic part is 1?
The magnetic force law is : F = q(v X B). Is it verified?
 
PeroK said:
Why do you ask?
I ask because I want to know the answer.
 
avicenna said:
I ask because I want to know the answer.
Did you read through the Wikipedia link that I posted earlier?
 
avicenna said:
The magnetic force law is : F = q(v X B). Is it verified?
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avicenna said:
The video experiment has nothing to do with verification of the magnetic force.

Why not? The fact that the electron beam path curved in exactly the same way that the Lorentz for predicted is a verification. Or are you completely blind of what it was demonstrating?

And what about all those undergraduate experiments that I pointed out to? Have you attempted any of them?

I don't think you even know what the magnetic Lorentz force is.

Zz.
 
avicenna said:
I ask because I want to know the answer.

I don't think you'd recognize the answer even if it smacked you on the face.

Just so you know, particle accelerators all over the world make use of this force. And not only that, your old TV and CRT tubes (depending on how old you are) were clear demonstration of this force. But like I said. the evidence have all been staring at you in the face, but you just don't recognize it.

Zz.
 
berkeman said:
Did you read through the Wikipedia link that I posted earlier?
I did read some of the physics involving mass spectrometry. I am not sure how it is a verification of the magnetic force law.
 
avicenna said:
I did read some of the physics involving mass spectrometry. I am not sure how it is a verification of the magnetic force law.
Are you being obtuse on purpose? What is your end game here?
 
You can show that Maxwell's equations are Lorentz covariant. You can show that a pure electric field viewed from a moving frame has a magnetic component. Therefore you can re-analyse any experiment that measures the electric part of the Lorentz force law in a different frame and show that the magnetic force component behaves as expected.

Thus a test of the electric part of the Lorentz force is also a test of the magnetic part.
 
Ibix said:
You can show that Maxwell's equations are Lorentz covariant. You can show that a pure electric field viewed from a moving frame has a magnetic component. Therefore you can re-analyse any experiment that measures the electric part of the Lorentz force law in a different frame and show that the magnetic force component behaves as expected.

Thus a test of the electric part of the Lorentz force is also a test of the magnetic part.
Has anyone done any experiment to verify "the electric part of the Lorentz force law in a different frame" to be correct?
 
avicenna said:
Has anyone done any experiment to verify "the electric part of the Lorentz force law in a different frame" to be correct?

Shouldn't you try and understand the simpler version first before trying to tackled ".. the electric part of Lorentz force law in a different frame.."? You appear to not understand either the concept of cross product or how it relates to the magnetic force on moving charge particles. How about understanding the basic concept that we cover in General Physics first?

You don't appear to be sincere about learning anything here.

Zz.
 
avicenna said:
The magnetic force law is : F = q(v X B). Is it verified?
I have personally verified the Lorentz magnetic force (measuring the trajectory of electrons of known velocity moving through a homogeneous magnetic field) in my college physics lab, and I expect that many of the regular contributors here have similar experiences, as have generations of students before us for the past century and a half.
Thus the answer to this question (and the question in the thread title) is unambiguously "Yes".

There are also an enormous number of experiments (probably just about everything that involves using magnetic fields to manipulate the trajectories of charged particles) that would not work properly if the Lorentz force law were not valid. These are not indexed as "verifications of the Lorentz force law", but that's what they are.
 
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