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Left/Right hand rule....not working?
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[QUOTE="BvU, post: 5476136, member: 499340"] Hello right one, :welcome: Funny that my right hand seems to work OK in this exercise ! Did you notice there are two magnetic force arrows drawn in the picture ? For the one on the right I let my thumb point towards me and my index finger to the left, and sure enough F points downwards. For the one on the left I have to have my right thumb point away from me and my index finger to the left: my hand palm points up and so does the F there. -- My personal way to remember this is that I have the Lorentz force $$F_L=q\left ( \vec E+\vec v\times\vec B\right)$$memorized and for the cross product I turn ##\vec v## (the current) over the smallest angle towards ##\vec B##. The way the corkscrew goes is the way the vector product goes. [/QUOTE]
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