Question

7.Why and when does a current carrying conductor kept in a magnetic field experience force? List the factors on which direction of this force depends?

Answer 1

Answer:

The drifting of free electrons of a conductor in a definite direction causes the current to flow through it. When such conductor is placed in a uniform magnetic field, each drifted electron of a conductor experience a magnetic force.

This force is collectively experience by a conductor as a whole. Hence a current carrying conductor kept in a magnetic field experience a force.

The direction of magnetic force depends on

(i) direction of current through the conductor, and

(ii) direction of magnetic field.

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