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Difference between right hand corkscrew rule and right hand thumb rule of maxwell

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Answered by ranjanalok961
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We know that the force of a moving charge in a magnetic field is given as

F = q│v ᵡ B│

Here F is the force, B is the magnetic field and v is the velocity of the charge. Now, we use the right hand screw rule to get the direction of F.

If v and B are in the plane of the paper , then according to right hand screw rule, the direction of F on positively charged particle will be perpendicular to the plane of the paper upward as shown in the figure below:

Similarly for negatively charged particle , the direction of f will be downwards.

Here we will take the curl of our fingers, in the direction from v to B, the direction of thumb gives the corresponding direction of F.

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