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Lorentz force<br />

In physics, particularly electromagnetism, the Lorentz force is the combination of electric and magnetic force on<br />

a point charge due to electromagnetic fields. If a particle of charge q moves with velocity v in the presence of<br />

an electric field E and a magnetic field B, then it will experience a force<br />

F = - q∙ [ E + (v x B) ]<br />

(in SI units). Variations on this basic formula describe the magnetic force on a current-carrying wire (sometimes<br />

called Laplace force), the electromotive force in a wire loop moving through a magnetic field (an aspect of<br />

Faraday's law of induction), and the force on a charged particle which might be traveling near the speed of light<br />

(relativistic form of the Lorentz force).<br />

The first derivation of the Lorentz force is commonly attributed to Oliver Heaviside in 1889, although other<br />

historians suggest an earlier origin in an 1865 paper by James Clerk Maxwell. Hendrik Lorentz derived it a few<br />

years after Heaviside.<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang<br />

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force

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