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| [[File:VFPt cylindrical magnet thumb.svg|thumb|250px|Magnetic field of an ideal cylindrical [[magnet]] with its axis of symmetry inside the image plane. The magnetic field is represented by [[field line|magnetic field lines]], which show the direction of the field at different points. ]]
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| {{Electromagnetism|cTopic=Magnetostatics}}
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| A '''magnetic field''' is a mathematical description of the magnetic influence of [[electric current]]s and [[magnet|magnetic materials]]. The magnetic field at any given point is specified by both a ''direction'' and a ''magnitude'' (or strength); as such it is a [[vector field]].<ref group="nb">Technically, a magnetic field is a [[pseudo vector]]; pseudo-vectors, which also include torque and [[Rotational speed|rotational velocity]], are similar to vectors except that they remain unchanged when the coordinates are inverted.</ref> The term is used for two distinct but closely related fields denoted by the symbols {{math|'''B'''}} and {{math|'''H'''}}. {{math|'''B'''}} refers to magnetic flux density, and {{math|'''H'''}} to magnetic field strength. Magnetic flux density is most commonly defined in terms of the [[Lorentz force]] it exerts on moving electric charges.
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| Magnetic fields are produced by moving [[electric charge]]s and the intrinsic magnetic moments of [[elementary particle]]s associated with a fundamental [[quantum mechanics|quantum property]], their [[Spin (physics)|spin]]. In [[special relativity]], electric and magnetic fields are two interrelated aspects of a single object, called the [[electromagnetic tensor]]; the split of this tensor into electric and magnetic fields depends on the relative velocity of the observer and charge. In quantum physics, the electromagnetic field is quantized and electromagnetic interactions result from the exchange of [[photon]]s.
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| In everyday life, magnetic fields are most often encountered as an invisible force created by [[permanent magnet]]s which pull on ferromagnetic materials such as iron, cobalt or nickel and attract or repel other magnets. Magnetic fields are very widely used throughout modern technology, particularly in [[electrical engineering]] and [[electromechanics]]. The Earth produces its own magnetic field, which is important in navigation. Rotating magnetic fields are used in both [[electric motor]]s and [[electric generator|generators]]. Magnetic forces give information about the charge carriers in a material through the [[Hall effect]]. The interaction of magnetic fields in electric devices such as transformers is studied in the discipline of [[magnetic circuit]]s.
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| ==History==
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| {{Main|History of electromagnetic theory}}
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| [[Image:Descartes magnetic field.jpg|thumb|300px|One of the first drawings of a magnetic field, by [[René Descartes]], 1644. It illustrated his theory that magnetism was caused by the circulation of tiny helical particles, "threaded parts", through threaded pores in magnets.]]
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| Although magnets and magnetism were known much earlier, the study of magnetic fields began in 1269 when French scholar [[Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt]] mapped out the magnetic field on the surface of a spherical magnet using iron needles.<ref group="nb">His ''Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt Militem de Magnete'', which is often shortened to ''Epistola de magnete'', is dated 1269 C.E.</ref> Noting that the resulting field lines crossed at two points he named those points 'poles' in analogy to Earth's poles. Almost three centuries later, [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]] of Colchester replicated Petrus Peregrinus' work and was the first to state explicitly that Earth is a magnet.<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=34}}</ref> Published in 1600, Gilbert's work, ''[[De Magnete]]'', helped to establish magnetism as a science.
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| In 1750, [[John Michell]] stated that magnetic poles attract and repel in accordance with an inverse square law.<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=56}}</ref> [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]] experimentally verified this in 1785 and stated explicitly that the North and South poles cannot be separated.<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=59}}</ref> Building on this force between poles, [[Siméon Denis Poisson]] (1781–1840) created the first successful model of the magnetic field, which he presented in 1824.<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=64}}</ref> In this model, a magnetic {{math|'''H'''}}-field is produced by 'magnetic poles' and magnetism is due to small pairs of north/south magnetic poles.
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| Three discoveries challenged this foundation of magnetism, though. First, in 1819, [[Hans Christian Oersted]] discovered that an electric current generates a magnetic field encircling it. Then in 1820, [[André-Marie Ampère]] showed that parallel wires having currents in the same direction attract one another. Finally, [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]] and [[Félix Savart]] discovered the [[Biot–Savart law]] in 1820, which correctly predicts the magnetic field around any current-carrying wire.
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| Extending these experiments, Ampère published his own successful model of magnetism in 1825. In it, he showed the equivalence of electrical currents to magnets<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=88}}</ref> and proposed that magnetism is due to perpetually flowing loops of current instead of the dipoles of magnetic charge in Poisson's model.<ref group="nb">
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| From the outside, the field of a dipole of magnetic charge has the exact same form as that of a current loop when both are sufficiently small. Therefore, the two models differ only for magnetism inside magnetic material.
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| </ref> This has the additional benefit of explaining why magnetic charge can not be isolated. Further, Ampère derived both [[Ampère's force law]] describing the force between two currents and [[Ampère's law]] which, like the Biot–Savart law, correctly described the magnetic field generated by a steady current. Also in this work, Ampère introduced the term [[electrodynamics]] to describe the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
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| In 1831, [[Michael Faraday]] discovered electromagnetic induction when he found that a changing magnetic field generates an encircling electric field. He described this phenomenon in what is known as [[Faraday's law of induction]]. Later, [[Franz Ernst Neumann]] proved that, for a moving conductor in a magnetic field, induction is a consequence of Ampère's force law .<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=222}}</ref> In the process he introduced the [[magnetic vector potential]], which was later shown to be equivalent to the underlying mechanism proposed by Faraday.
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| In 1850, [[Lord Kelvin]], then known as William Thomson, distinguished between two magnetic fields now denoted {{math|'''H'''}} and {{math|'''B'''}}. The former applied to Poisson's model and the latter to Ampère's model and induction.<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=244}}</ref> Further, he derived how {{math|'''H'''}} and {{math|'''B'''}} relate to each other.
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| Between 1861 and 1865, [[James Clerk Maxwell]] developed and published [[Maxwell's equations]], which explained and united all of [[classical theory|classical]] electricity and magnetism. The first set of these equations was published in a paper entitled ''[[:Commons:File:On Physical Lines of Force.pdf|On Physical Lines of Force]]'' in 1861. These equations were valid although incomplete. He completed Maxwell's set of equations in his later 1865 paper ''[[A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field]]'' and demonstrated the fact that light is an [[electromagnetic wave]]. [[Heinrich Hertz]] experimentally confirmed this fact in 1887.
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| Although implicit in Ampère's force law the force due to a magnetic field on a moving electric charge was not correctly and explicitly stated until 1892 by [[Hendrik Lorentz]] who theoretically derived it from Maxwell's equations.<ref>{{harvnb|Whittaker|1951|p=422}}</ref> With this last piece of the puzzle, the classical theory of electrodynamics was essentially complete.
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| The twentieth century extended electrodynamics to include relativity and quantum mechanics. [[Albert Einstein]], in his paper of 1905 that established relativity, showed that both the electric and magnetic fields are part of the same phenomena viewed from different reference frames. (See [[moving magnet and conductor problem]] for details about the [[thought experiment]] that eventually helped Albert Einstein to develop [[special relativity]].) Finally, the emergent field of [[quantum mechanics]] was merged with electrodynamics to form [[quantum electrodynamics]] (QED).
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| ==Definitions, units, and measurement== <!-- note that [[Hans Christian Ørsted]] links here -->
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| ===Definition===
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| !Alternative names for '''B'''<ref name=Electromagnetics>[http://books.google.com/books?id=jCqv1UygjA4C&pg=PA23 Electromagnetics, by Rothwell and Cloud, p23]</ref>
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| * Magnetic flux density
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| !Alternative names for '''H'''<ref name=Electromagnetics /><ref>{{cite book
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| * Magnetic field intensity
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| The magnetic field can be defined in several equivalent ways based on the effects it has on its environment.
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| Often the magnetic field is defined by the force it exerts on a moving charged particle. It is known from experiments in [[electrostatics]] that a particle of charge {{math|''q''}} in an electric field {{math|'''E'''}} experiences a force {{math|1='''F''' = ''q'''''E'''}}. However, in other situations, such as when a charged particle moves in the vicinity of a current-carrying wire, the force also depends on the velocity of that particle. Fortunately, the velocity dependent portion can be separated out such that the force on the particle satisfies the ''[[Lorentz force law]]'',
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| : <math>\mathbf{F} = q(\mathbf{E} + \mathbf{v} \times \mathbf{B}).</math>
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| Here {{math|'''v'''}} is the particle's velocity and × denotes the [[cross product]]. The vector {{math|'''B'''}} is termed the magnetic field, and it is ''defined'' as the vector field necessary to make the Lorentz force law correctly describe the motion of a charged particle. This definition allows the determination of {{math|'''B'''}} in the following way<ref name="purcell">{{cite book|author=Purcell, E.|title=Electricity and Magnetism|pages=173–4|year=2011|edition=2nd|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=1107013607}}</ref>
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| {{blockquote|[T]he command, "Measure the direction and magnitude of the vector {{math|'''B'''}} at such and such a place," calls for the following operations: Take a particle of known charge {{math|''q''}}. Measure the force on {{math|''q''}} at rest, to determine {{math|'''E'''}}. Then measure the force on the particle when its velocity is {{math|'''v'''}}; repeat with {{math|'''v'''}} in some other direction. Now find a {{math|'''B'''}} that makes [the Lorentz force law] fit all these results—that is the magnetic field at the place in question.}}
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| Alternatively, the magnetic field can be defined in terms of the [[torque]] it produces on a magnetic dipole (see [[#Magnetic torque on permanent magnets|magnetic torque on permanent magnets]] below).
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| In addition to {{math|'''B'''}}, there is a quantity {{math|'''H'''}} which is also sometimes called the "magnetic field". In a vacuum, {{math|'''B'''}} and {{math|'''H'''}} are proportional to each other, with the multiplicative constant depending on the physical units. Inside a material they are different (see [[#H-field_and_magnetic_materials|H and B inside and outside of magnetic materials]]). The term ''magnetic field'' is historically reserved for {{math|'''H'''}} while using other terms for {{math|'''B'''}}. Informally, though, and formally for some recent textbooks mostly in physics, the term 'magnetic field' is used to describe {{math|'''B'''}} as well as or in place of {{math|'''H'''}}.<ref group="nb" name="ex03">[[Edward Mills Purcell|Edward Purcell]], in Electricity and Magnetism, McGraw-Hill, 1963, writes, ''Even some modern writers who treat {{math|'''B'''}} as the primary field feel obliged to call it the magnetic induction because the name magnetic field was historically preempted by {{math|'''H'''}}. This seems clumsy and pedantic. If you go into the laboratory and ask a physicist what causes the pion trajectories in his bubble chamber to curve, he'll probably answer "magnetic field", not "magnetic induction." You will seldom hear a geophysicist refer to the Earth's magnetic induction, or an astrophysicist talk about the magnetic induction of the galaxy. We propose to keep on calling {{math|'''B'''}} the magnetic field. As for {{math|'''H'''}}, although other names have been invented for it, we shall call it "the field {{math|'''H'''}}" or even "the magnetic field {{math|'''H'''}}."'' In a similar vein, {{cite book |author=M Gerloch |title=Magnetism and Ligand-field Analysis |url=http://books.google.com/?id=Ovo8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA110 |page=110 |isbn=0-521-24939-2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1983}} says: "So we may think of both {{math|'''B'''}} and {{math|'''H'''}} as magnetic fields, but drop the word 'magnetic' from {{math|'''H'''}} so as to maintain the distinction ... As Purcell points out, 'it is only the names that give trouble, not the symbols'."</ref>
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| There are many alternative names for both (see sidebar).
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| ===Units===
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| In [[SI]] units, {{math|'''B'''}} is measured in [[tesla (unit)|teslas]] (symbol: T) and correspondingly {{math|Φ<sub>''B''</sub>}} ([[magnetic flux]]) is measured in [[Weber (unit)|webers]] (symbol: Wb) so that a flux density of 1 Wb/m<sup>2</sup> is 1 [[tesla (unit)|tesla]]. The SI unit of tesla is equivalent to ([[newton (unit)|newton]]·[[second]])/([[coulomb (unit)|coulomb]]·[[metre]]).<ref group="nb">This can be seen from the magnetic part of the Lorentz force law {{math|1=''F'' = ''qvB''sinθ}}.</ref> In [[Gaussian units|Gaussian-cgs units]], {{math|'''B'''}} is measured in [[gauss (unit)|gauss]] (symbol: G). (The conversion is 1 T = 10,000 G.) The {{math|'''H'''}}-field is measured in [[ampere]]s per metre (A/m) in SI units, and in [[oersted]]s (Oe) in cgs units.<ref>{{cite web|title=International system of units (SI) |url=http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html |work=NIST reference on constants, units, and uncertainty |publisher=National Institute of Standards and Technology |accessdate=9 May 2012}}</ref>
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| ===Measurement===
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| The precision attained for a magnetic field measurement for Gravity Probe B experiment is 5 attotesla ({{val|5|e=-18|u=T}});<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/168808main_gp-b_pfar_cvr-pref-execsum.pdf|title=Gravity Probe B Executive Summary|pages=10, 21}}</ref> the largest magnetic field produced in a laboratory is 2.8 kT ([[VNIIEF]] in [[Sarov]], [[Russia]], 1998).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=823621|title=With record magnetic fields to the 21st Century|work=[[IEEE Xplore]]}}</ref> The magnetic field of some astronomical objects such as [[magnetar]]s are much higher; magnetars range from 0.1 to 100 GT (10<sup>8</sup> to 10<sup>11</sup> T).<ref>Kouveliotou, C.; Duncan, R. C.; Thompson, C. (February 2003). "[http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/sciam.pdf Magnetars]". ''[[Scientific American]]''; Page 36.</ref> See [[orders of magnitude (magnetic field)]].
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| Devices used to measure the local magnetic field are called [[magnetometer]]s. Important classes of magnetometers include using a rotating coil, [[Hall effect]] magnetometers, [[proton magnetometer|NMR magnetometers]], [[SQUID|SQUID magnetometers]], and [[Magnetometer#Fluxgate magnetometer|fluxgate magnetometers]]. The magnetic fields of distant [[astronomical object]]s are measured through their effects on local charged particles. For instance, electrons spiraling around a field line produce [[synchrotron radiation]] that is detectable in [[radio waves]].
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| ==Magnetic field lines{{anchor|Magnetic field line}}==
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| {{Main|Field line}}
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| [[Image:Magnetic field near pole.svg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|[[Compass]]es reveal the direction of the local magnetic field. As seen here, the magnetic field points towards a magnet's south pole and away from its north pole.]]
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| Mapping the magnetic field of an object is simple in principle. First, measure the strength and direction of the magnetic field at a large number of locations (or at every point in space). Then, mark each location with an arrow (called a [[vector (geometry)|vector]]) pointing in the direction of the local magnetic field with its magnitude proportional to the strength of the magnetic field.
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| An alternative method to map the magnetic field is to 'connect' the arrows to form magnetic ''field lines''. The direction of the magnetic field at any point is parallel to the direction of nearby field lines, and the local density of field lines can be made proportional to its strength.
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| Magnetic field lines are like the [[contour line]]s (constant altitude) on a [[topographic map]] in that they represent something continuous, and a different mapping scale would show more or fewer lines. An advantage of using magnetic field lines as a representation is that many laws of magnetism (and electromagnetism) can be stated completely and concisely using simple concepts such as the 'number' of field lines through a surface. These concepts can be quickly 'translated' to their mathematical form. For example, the number of field lines through a given surface is the [[surface integral]] of the magnetic field.
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| [[Image:Magnet0873.png|thumb|right|The direction of magnetic [[field line]]s represented by the alignment of [[iron filings]] sprinkled on paper placed above a bar magnet.]]
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| Various phenomena have the effect of "displaying" magnetic field lines as though the field lines are physical phenomena. For example, iron filings placed in a magnetic field line up to form lines that correspond to 'field lines'.<ref group="nb" name="ex07">The use of iron filings to display a field presents something of an exception to this picture; the filings alter the magnetic field so that it is much larger along the "lines" of iron, due to the large [[magnetic permeability|permeability]] of iron relative to air.</ref> Magnetic fields' "lines" are also visually displayed in [[Aurora (astronomy)|polar auroras]], in which [[Plasma (physics)|plasma]] particle dipole interactions create visible streaks of light that line up with the local direction of Earth's magnetic field.
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| Field lines can be used as a qualitative tool to visualize magnetic forces. In [[ferromagnetic]] substances like [[iron]] and in plasmas, magnetic forces can be understood by imagining that the field lines exert a [[Maxwell stress tensor|tension]], (like a rubber band) along their length, and a pressure perpendicular to their length on neighboring field lines. 'Unlike' poles of magnets attract because they are linked by many field lines; 'like' poles repel because their field lines do not meet, but run parallel, pushing on each other. The rigorous form of this concept is the [[electromagnetic stress–energy tensor]].
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| ==Magnetic field and permanent magnets==
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| ''Permanent magnets'' are objects that produce their own persistent magnetic fields. They are made of [[ferromagnetism|ferromagnetic]] materials, such as iron and [[nickel]], that have been magnetized, and they have both a north and a south pole.
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| ===Magnetic field of permanent magnets===
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| {{Main|Magnetic moment|magnetic moment#Two definitions of moment|l2=Two definitions of moment}}
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| The magnetic field of permanent magnets can be quite complicated, especially near the magnet. The magnetic field of a small<ref group="nb" name="ex05">Here 'small' means that the observer is sufficiently far away that it can be treated as being infinitesimally small. 'Larger' magnets need to include more complicated terms in the expression and depend on the entire geometry of the magnet not just {{math|'''m'''}}.</ref> straight magnet is proportional to the magnet's ''strength'' (called its [[magnetic dipole moment]] {{math|'''m'''}}). The [[Dipole#Field of a static magnetic dipole|equations]] are non-trivial and also depend on the distance from the magnet and the orientation of the magnet. For simple magnets, {{math|'''m'''}} points in the direction of a line drawn from the south to the north pole of the magnet. Flipping a bar magnet is equivalent to rotating its {{math|'''m'''}} by 180 degrees.
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| The magnetic field of larger magnets can be obtained by modelling them as a collection of a large number of small magnets called [[dipole]]s each having their own {{math|'''m'''}}. The magnetic field produced by the magnet then is the net magnetic field of these dipoles. And, any net force on the magnet is a result of adding up the forces on the individual dipoles.
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| There are two competing models for the nature of these dipoles. These two models produce two different magnetic fields, {{math|'''H'''}} and {{math|'''B'''}}. Outside a material, though, the two are identical (to a multiplicative constant) so that in many cases the distinction can be ignored. This is particularly true for magnetic fields, such as those due to electric currents, that are not generated by magnetic materials.
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| ===Magnetic pole model and the H-field===
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| [[Image:VFPt dipole electric.svg|thumb|200px|upright|The magnetic pole model: two opposing poles, North (+) and South (−), separated by a distance d produce an {{math|'''H'''}}-field (lines).]]
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| It is sometimes useful to model the force and torques between two magnets as due to magnetic poles repelling or attracting each other in the same manner as the [[Coulomb force]] between electric charges. This is called the Gilbert model of magnetism, after [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]]. In this model, a magnetic {{math|'''H'''}}-field is produced by ''magnetic charges'' that are 'smeared' around each pole. The {{math|'''H'''}}-field, therefore, is analogous to the [[electric field]] {{math|'''E'''}}, which starts at a positive [[electric charge]] and ends at a negative electric charge. Near the north pole, therefore, all {{math|'''H'''}}-field lines point away from the north pole (whether inside the magnet or out) while near the south pole (whether inside the magnet or out) all {{math|'''H'''}}-field lines point toward the south pole. A north pole, then, feels a force in the direction of the {{math|'''H'''}}-field while the force on the south pole is opposite to the {{math|'''H'''}}-field.
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| In the magnetic pole model, the elementary magnetic dipole {{math|'''m'''}} is formed by two opposite magnetic poles of pole strength {{math|''q''{{sub|m}}}} separated by a very small distance vector {{math|'''d'''}}, such that {{math|1='''m''' = ''q''{{sub|m}} '''d'''}}.
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| Since it is based on the fictitious idea of a "magnetic charge density", the Gilbert model has limitations. Magnetic poles cannot exist apart from each other as electric charges can, but always come in North/South pairs; if a magnetized object is divided in half, a new pole will appear on the surface of each piece so each will have a pair of complementary poles. The magnetic pole model does not account for magnetism that is produced by electric currents, and only gives the correct magnetic field ''outside'' magnetic materials; the magnetic field inside magnetic materials calculated from the model has the wrong direction.
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| ===Amperian loop model and the B-field===
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| {{see also|Gauss's law for magnetism}}
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| [[Image:VFPt dipole magnetic3.svg|thumbnail|200px|right|The Amperian loop model: A current loop (ring) that goes into the page at the x and comes out at the dot produces a {{math|'''B'''}}-field (lines). The north pole is to the right and the south to the left.]]
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| After Oersted discovered that electric currents produce a magnetic field and Ampere discovered that electric currents attracted and repelled each other similar to magnets, it was natural to hypothesize that all magnetic fields are due to electric current loops. In this model developed by Ampere, the elementary magnetic dipole that makes up all magnets is a sufficiently small Amperian loop of current I. The dipole moment of this loop is {{math|1=''m'' = ''IA''}} where {{math|''A''}} is the area of the loop.
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| These magnetic dipoles produce a magnetic {{math|'''B'''}}-field. One important property of the {{math|'''B'''}}-field produced this way is that magnetic {{math|'''B'''}}-field lines neither start nor end (mathematically, {{math|'''B'''}} is a [[solenoidal vector field]]); a field line either extends to infinity or wraps around to form a closed curve.<ref group="nb">Magnetic field lines may also wrap around and around without closing but also without ending. These more complicated non-closing non-ending magnetic field lines are moot, though, since the magnetic field of objects that produce them are calculated by adding the magnetic fields of 'elementary parts' having magnetic field lines that do form closed curves or extend to infinity.</ref> To date no exception to this rule has been found. (See [[#Magnetic monopole (hypothetical)|magnetic monopole]] below.) Magnetic field lines exit a magnet near its north pole and enter near its south pole, but inside the magnet {{math|'''B'''}}-field lines continue through the magnet from the south pole back to the north.<ref group="nb" name="ex08">To see that this must be true imagine placing a compass inside a magnet. There, the north pole of the compass points toward the north pole of the magnet since magnets stacked on each other point in the same direction.</ref> If a {{math|'''B'''}}-field line enters a magnet somewhere it has to leave somewhere else; it is not allowed to have an end point. Magnetic poles, therefore, always come in N and S pairs.
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| More formally, since all the magnetic field lines that enter any given region must also leave that region, subtracting the 'number'<ref group="nb" name="ex09">As discussed above, magnetic field lines are primarily a conceptual tool used to represent the mathematics behind magnetic fields. The total 'number' of field lines is dependent on how the field lines are drawn. In practice, integral equations such as the one that follows in the main text are used instead.</ref> of field lines that enter the region from the number that exit gives identically zero. Mathematically this is equivalent to:
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| :<math>\oint_S \mathbf{B} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{A} = 0,</math>
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| where the integral is a [[surface integral]] over the [[closed surface]] {{math|''S''}} (a closed surface is one that completely surrounds a region with no holes to let any field lines escape). Since {{math|d'''A'''}} points outward, the dot product in the integral is positive for {{math|'''B'''}}-field pointing out and negative for {{math|'''B'''}}-field pointing in.
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| There is also a corresponding differential form of this equation covered in [[#Maxwell's equations|Maxwell's equations]] below.
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| ===Force between magnets===
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| {{Main|Force between magnets}}
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| The [[magnetic moment#Forces between two magnetic dipoles|force between two small magnets]] is quite complicated and depends on the strength and orientation of both magnets and the distance and direction of the magnets relative to each other. The force is particularly sensitive to rotations of the magnets due to magnetic torque. The force on each magnet depends on its magnetic moment and the magnetic field<ref group="nb" name="ex04">Either {{math|'''B'''}} or {{math|'''H'''}} may be used for the magnetic field outside of the magnet.</ref> of the other.
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| To understand the force between magnets, it is useful to examine the ''magnetic pole model'' given above. In this model, the ''{{math|'''H'''}}-field'' of one magnet pushes and pulls on ''both'' poles of a second magnet. If this {{math|'''H'''}}-field is the same at both poles of the second magnet then there is no net force on that magnet since the force is opposite for opposite poles. If, however, the magnetic field of the first magnet is ''nonuniform'' (such as the {{math|'''H'''}} near one of its poles), each pole of the second magnet sees a different field and is subject to a different force. This difference in the two forces moves the magnet in the direction of increasing magnetic field and may also cause a net torque.
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| This is a specific example of a general rule that magnets are attracted (or repulsed depending on the orientation of the magnet) into regions of higher magnetic field. Any non-uniform magnetic field, whether caused by permanent magnets or electric currents, exerts a force on a small magnet in this way.
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| The details of the Amperian loop model are different and more complicated but yield the same result: that magnetic dipoles are attracted/repelled into regions of higher magnetic field.
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| Mathematically, the force on a small magnet having a magnetic moment {{math|'''m'''}} due to a magnetic field {{math|'''B'''}} is:<ref name=Trigg>
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| See Eq. 11.42 in {{cite book |title=AIP physics desk reference |author= E. Richard Cohen, David R. Lide, George L. Trigg |url=http://books.google.com/?id=JStYf6WlXpgC&pg=PA381 |page=381 |isbn=0-387-98973-0 |publisher=Birkhäuser |year=2003 |edition=3}}
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| </ref>
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| :<math>\mathbf{F} = \mathbf{\nabla} \left(\mathbf{m}\cdot\mathbf{B}\right),</math>
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| where the [[gradient]] {{math|'''∇'''}} is the change of the quantity {{math|'''m''' · '''B'''}} per unit distance and the direction is that of maximum increase of {{math|'''m''' · '''B'''}}. To understand this equation, note that the [[dot product]] {{math|1='''m''' · '''B''' = ''mB''cos(''θ'')}}, where {{math|''m''}} and {{math|''B''}} represent the [[magnitude (vector)|magnitude]] of the {{math|'''m'''}} and {{math|'''B'''}} vectors and {{math|''θ''}} is the angle between them. If {{math|'''m'''}} is in the same direction as {{math|'''B'''}} then the dot product is positive and the gradient points 'uphill' pulling the magnet into regions of higher {{math|'''B'''}}-field (more strictly larger {{math|'''m''' · '''B'''}}). This equation is strictly only valid for magnets of zero size, but is often a good approximation for not too large magnets. The magnetic force on larger magnets is determined by dividing them into smaller regions having their own {{math|'''m'''}} then summing up the forces on each of these regions.
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| ===Magnetic torque on permanent magnets===
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| {{Main|Magnetic torque}}
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| If two like poles of two separate magnets are brought near each other, and one of the magnets is allowed to turn, it promptly rotates to align itself with the first. In this example, the magnetic field of the stationary magnet creates a ''magnetic torque'' on the magnet that is free to rotate. This magnetic torque {{math|'''τ'''}} tends to align a magnet's poles with the magnetic field lines. A compass, therefore, turns to align itself with Earth's magnetic field.
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| Magnetic torque is used to drive [[electric motor]]s. In one simple motor design, a magnet is fixed to a freely rotating shaft and subjected to a magnetic field from an array of [[electromagnet]]s. By continuously switching the electric current through each of the electromagnets, thereby flipping the polarity of their magnetic fields, like poles are kept next to the rotor; the resultant torque is transferred to the shaft. See [[#Rotating magnetic fields|Rotating magnetic fields]] below.
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| [[image:Dipole in uniform H field.svg|thumb|left|'''torque on a dipole''': An {{math|'''H'''}} field (to right) causes equal but opposite forces on a N pole ({{math|+''q''}}) and a S pole ({{math|−''q''}}) creating a torque.]]As is the case for the force between magnets, the magnetic pole model leads more readily to the correct equation. Here, two equal and opposite magnetic charges experiencing the same {{math|'''H'''}} also experience equal and opposite forces. Since these equal and opposite forces are in different locations, this produces a torque proportional to the distance (perpendicular to the force) between them. With the definition of {{math|'''m'''}} as the pole strength times the distance between the poles, this leads to {{math|1=''τ'' = ''μ''<sub>0</sub>''mH''sin''θ''}}, where {{math|''μ''<sub>0</sub>}} is a constant called the [[vacuum permeability]], measuring {{val|4|end= π|e=-7}} [[Volt|V]]·[[Second|s]]/([[Ampere|A]]·[[meter|m]]) and {{math|''θ''}} is the angle between {{math|'''H'''}} and {{math|'''m'''}}.
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| The Amperian loop model also predicts the same magnetic torque. Here, it is the {{math|'''B'''}} field interacting with the Amperian current loop through a [[Lorentz force]] described below. Again, the results are the same although the models are completely different.
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| [[Image:cross parallelogram.png|thumb|'''Cross product''': {{math|1=<nowiki>|</nowiki>'''a''' × '''b'''<nowiki>|</nowiki> = ''a b'' sinθ}}.]]
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| Mathematically, the torque {{math|'''τ'''}} on a small magnet is proportional both to the applied magnetic field and to the magnetic moment {{math|'''m'''}} of the magnet:
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| :<math>\boldsymbol{\tau}=\mathbf{m}\times\mathbf{B} = \mu_0\mathbf{m}\times\mathbf{H}, \,</math>
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| where × represents the vector [[cross product]]. Note that this equation includes all of the qualitative information included above. There is no torque on a magnet if {{math|'''m'''}} is in the same direction as the magnetic field. (The cross product is zero for two vectors that are in the same direction.) Further, all other orientations feel a torque that twists them toward the direction of magnetic field.
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| ==Magnetic field and electric currents==
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| Currents of electric charges both generate a magnetic field and feel a force due to magnetic B-fields.
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| ===Magnetic field due to moving charges and electric currents===
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| {{Main|Electromagnet|Biot–Savart law|Ampère's circuital law|l3=Ampère's law}}
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| [[Image:Manoderecha.svg|thumb|right|[[Right hand grip rule]]: a current flowing in the direction of the white arrow produces a magnetic field shown by the red arrows.]]
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| All moving charged particles produce magnetic fields. Moving [[point particle|point]] charges, such as [[electron]]s, produce complicated but well known magnetic fields that depend on the charge, velocity, and acceleration of the particles.<ref>{{harvnb|Griffiths|1999|p=438}}</ref>
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| Magnetic field lines form in [[concentric]] circles around a [[Cylinder (geometry)|cylindrical]] current-carrying conductor, such as a length of wire. The direction of such a magnetic field can be determined by using the "[[right hand grip rule]]" (see figure at right). The strength of the magnetic field decreases with distance from the wire. (For an infinite length wire the strength decreases inversely proportional to the distance.)
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| [[Image:Solenoid-1 (vertical).png|50 px|thumb|left|[[Solenoid]]]]
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| Bending a current-carrying wire into a loop concentrates the magnetic field inside the loop while weakening it outside. Bending a wire into multiple closely spaced loops to form a coil or "[[solenoid]]" enhances this effect. A device so formed around an iron [[Magnetic core|core]] may act as an ''electromagnet'', generating a strong, well-controlled magnetic field. An infinitely long cylindrical electromagnet has a uniform magnetic field inside, and no magnetic field outside. A finite length electromagnet produces a magnetic field that looks similar to that produced by a uniform permanent magnet, with its strength and polarity determined by the current flowing through the coil.
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| The magnetic field generated by a steady current {{math|I}} (a constant flow of electric charges, in which charge neither accumulates nor is depleted at any point)<ref group="nb" name="ex12">
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| In practice, the Biot–Savart law and other laws of magnetostatics are often used even when a current change in time, as long as it does not change too quickly. It is often used, for instance, for standard household currents, which oscillate sixty times per second.
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| </ref> is described by the ''[[Biot–Savart law]]'':
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| :<math> \mathbf{B} = \frac{\mu_0I}{4\pi}\int_{\mathrm{wire}}\frac{d\boldsymbol{\ell} \times \mathbf{\hat r}}{r^2},</math>
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| where the integral sums over the wire length where vector {{math|''d'''''ℓ'''}} is the vector [[line element]] with direction in the same sense as the current {{math|''I''}}, {{math|''μ''<sub>0</sub>}} is the [[magnetic constant]], {{math|''r''}} is the distance between the location of {{math|''d'''''ℓ'''}} and the location at which the magnetic field is being calculated, and {{math|'''r̂'''}} is a unit vector in the direction of {{math|'''r'''}}.
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| A slightly more general<ref>{{harvnb|Griffiths|1999|pp=222–225}}</ref><ref group="nb" name="ex13">
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| The Biot–Savart law contains the additional restriction (boundary condition) that the B-field must go to zero fast enough at infinity. It also depends on the divergence of {{math|'''B'''}} being zero, which is always valid. (There are no magnetic charges.)</ref> way of relating the current <math>{I}</math> to the {{math|'''B'''}}-field is through '''[[Ampère's circuital law|Ampère's law]]''':
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| :<math>\oint \mathbf{B} \cdot d\boldsymbol{\ell} = \mu_0 I_{\mathrm{enc}},</math>
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| where the [[line integral]] is over any arbitrary loop and <math>{I}</math><sub>enc</sub> is the current enclosed by that loop. Ampère's law is always valid for steady currents and can be used to calculate the {{math|'''B'''}}-field for certain highly symmetric situations such as an infinite wire or an infinite solenoid.
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| In a modified form that accounts for time varying electric fields, Ampère's law is one of four [[Maxwell's equations]] that describe electricity and magnetism.
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| ===Force on moving charges and current===
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| [[File:charged-particle-drifts.svg|300px|thumbnail|right|'''Charged particle drifts''' in a magnetic field with (A) no net force, (B) an electric field, {{math|'''E'''}}, (C) a charge independent force, {{math|'''F'''}} (e.g. gravity), and (D) an inhomogeneous magnetic field, {{math|grad '''H'''}}.]]
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| ====Force on a charged particle====
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| {{Main|Lorentz force}}
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| A [[charged particle]] moving in a {{math|'''B'''}}-field experiences a ''sideways'' force that is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field, the component of the velocity that is perpendicular to the magnetic field and the charge of the particle. This force is known as the '''Lorentz force''', and is given by
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| : <math>\mathbf{F} = q \mathbf{v} \times \mathbf{B},</math>
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| where
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| {{math|'''F'''}} is the [[force]], {{math|''q''}} is the [[electric charge]] of the particle, {{math|'''v'''}} is the instantaneous [[velocity]] of the particle, and {{math|'''B'''}} is the magnetic field (in [[tesla (unit)|teslas]]).
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| The Lorentz force is always perpendicular to both the velocity of the particle and the magnetic field that created it. When a charged particle moves in a static magnetic field, it traces a helical path in which the helix axis is parallel to the magnetic field, and in which the speed of the particle remains constant. Because the magnetic force is always perpendicular to the motion, the magnetic field can do no [[mechanical work|work]] on an isolated charge. It can only do work indirectly, via the electric field generated by a changing magnetic field. It is often claimed that the magnetic force can do work to a non-elementary [[magnetic dipole]], or to charged particles whose motion is constrained by other forces, but this is incorrect<ref name=Deissler>
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| {{cite journal
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| |author=Deissler, R.J.
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| |year=2008
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| |title=Dipole in a magnetic field, work, and quantum spin
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| |url=http://academic.csuohio.edu/deissler/PhysRevE_77_036609.pdf
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| |journal=[[Physical Review E]]
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| |volume=77 |issue=3, pt 2
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| |page=036609
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| |pmid=18517545
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| |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.77.036609
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| |bibcode = 2008PhRvE..77c6609D }}</ref> because the work in those cases is performed by the electric forces of the charges deflected by the magnetic field.
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| ====Force on current-carrying wire====
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| {{Main|Laplace force}}
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| The force on a current carrying wire is similar to that of a moving charge as expected since a charge carrying wire is a collection of moving charges. A current-carrying wire feels a force in the presence of a magnetic field. The Lorentz force on a macroscopic current is often referred to as the ''Laplace force''.
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| Consider a conductor of length {{math|''ℓ''}}, cross section {{math|''A''}}, and charge {{math|''q''}} due to electric current {{math|''i''}}. If this conductor is placed in a magnetic field of magnitude {{math|''B''}} that makes an angle {{math|θ}} with the velocity of charges in the conductor, the force exerted on a single charge {{math|''q''}} is
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| :<math>F = qvB \sin\theta,</math>
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| so, for {{math|''N''}} charges where
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| :<math>N = n \ell A </math>,
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| the force exerted on the conductor is
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| :<math>f=FN=qvB n\ell A \sin\theta = Bi\ell \sin\theta </math>,
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| where {{math|1=''i'' = ''nqvA''}}.
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| [[Image:Regla mano derecha Laplace.svg|right|thumb|250px|The [[right-hand rule]]: Pointing the thumb of the right hand in the direction of the [[conventional current]] and the fingers in the direction of {{math|'''B'''}} the force on the current points out of the palm. The force is reversed for a negative charge.]]
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| ====Direction of force====
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| {{See also|Right-hand rule}}
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| The direction of force on a charge or a current can be determined by a [[mnemonic]] known as the ''right-hand rule'' (see the figure). Using the right hand and pointing the thumb in the direction of the moving positive charge or positive current and the fingers in the direction of the magnetic field the resulting force on the charge points outwards from the palm. The force on a negatively charged particle is in the opposite direction. If both the speed and the charge are reversed then the direction of the force remains the same. For that reason a magnetic field measurement (by itself) cannot distinguish whether there is a positive charge moving to the right or a negative charge moving to the left. (Both of these cases produce the same current.) On the other hand, a magnetic field combined with an electric field ''can'' distinguish between these, see [[#Hall effect|Hall effect]] below.
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| An alternative mnemonic to the right hand rule [[Fleming's left-hand rule for motors|Flemings's left hand rule]].
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| ==Relation between H and B==
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| The formulas derived for the magnetic field above are correct when dealing with the entire current. A magnetic material placed inside a magnetic field, though, generates its own [[bound current]], which can be a challenge to calculate. (This bound current is due to the sum of atomic sized current loops and the [[spin (physics)|spin]] of the subatomic particles such as electrons that make up the material.) The {{math|'''H'''}}-field as defined above helps factor out this bound current; but to see how, it helps to introduce the concept of ''magnetization'' first.
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| ===Magnetization===
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| {{Main|Magnetization}}
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| The '''magnetization''' vector field {{math|'''M'''}} represents how strongly a region of material is magnetized. It is defined as the net [[magnetic dipole moment]] per unit volume of that region. The magnetization of a uniform magnet, therefore, is a constant in the material equal to its magnetic moment, {{math|'''m'''}}, divided by its volume. Since the SI unit of magnetic moment is ampere meter<sup>2</sup>, the SI unit of magnetization {{math|'''M'''}} is ampere per meter, identical to that of the {{math|'''H'''}}-field.
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| The magnetization {{math|'''M'''}} field of a region points in the direction of the average magnetic dipole moment in that region. Magnetization field lines, therefore, begin near the magnetic south pole and ends near the magnetic north pole. (Magnetization does not exist outside of the magnet.)
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| In the Amperian loop model, the magnetization is due to combining many tiny Amperian loops to form a resultant current called ''[[bound current]]''. This bound current, then, is the source of the magnetic {{math|'''B'''}} field due to the magnet. (See [[#Magnetic dipoles|Magnetic dipoles]] below and [[Magnet#Two models for magnets: magnetic poles and atomic currents|magnetic poles vs. atomic currents]] for more information.) Given the definition of the magnetic dipole, the magnetization field follows a similar law to that of Ampere's law:<ref>{{harvnb|Griffiths|1999|pp=266–268}}</ref>
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| :<math>\oint \mathbf{M} \cdot d\boldsymbol{\ell} = I_{\mathrm{b}},</math>
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| where the integral is a line integral over any closed loop and {{math|''I''<sub>b</sub>}} is the 'bound current' enclosed by that closed loop.
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| In the magnetic pole model, magnetization begins at and ends at magnetic poles. If a given region, therefore, has a net positive 'magnetic pole strength' (corresponding to a north pole) then it has more magnetization field lines entering it than leaving it. Mathematically this is equivalent to:
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| :<math>\oint_S \mu_0 \mathbf{M} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{A} = -q_M</math>,
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| where the integral is a closed surface integral over the closed surface {{math|''S''}} and {{math|''q<sub>M</sub>''}} is the 'magnetic charge' (in units of [[magnetic flux]]) enclosed by {{math|''S''}}. (A closed surface completely surrounds a region with no holes to let any field lines escape.) The negative sign occurs because the magnetization field moves from south to north.
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| ===H-field and magnetic materials===
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| {{see also| demagnetizing field}}
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| The {{math|'''H'''}}-field is defined as:
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| :<math>\mathbf{H}\ \equiv \ \frac{\mathbf{B}}{\mu_0}-\mathbf{M},</math><span style="margin-left:3em;font-size:larger">(definition of {{math|'''H'''}} in SI units)</span>
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| With this definition, Ampere's law becomes:
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| :<math>\oint \mathbf{H} \cdot d\boldsymbol{\ell} = \oint (\frac{\mathbf{B}}{\mu_0} - \mathbf{M}) \cdot d\boldsymbol{\ell} = I_{\mathrm{tot}}- I_{\mathrm{b}} = I_{\mathrm{f}},</math>
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| where {{math|I<sub>f</sub>}} represents the 'free current' enclosed by the loop so that the line integral of {{math|'''H'''}} does not depend at all on the bound currents.<ref name=Slater>{{cite book |title=Electromagnetism |author=John Clarke Slater, Nathaniel Herman Frank |url=http://books.google.com/?id=GYsphnFwUuUC&pg=PA69 |page=69 |isbn=0-486-62263-0 |year=1969 |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |edition=first published in 1947 }}</ref> For the differential equivalent of this equation see [[#Maxwell's equations|Maxwell's equations]]. Ampere's law leads to the boundary condition
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| :<math>(\mathbf{H_1^\parallel} - \mathbf{H_2^\parallel}) = \mathbf{K}_\text{f} \times \hat{\mathbf{n}},</math>
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| where {{math|'''K'''<sub>f</sub>}} is the surface free current density and the unit normal <math> \hat{\mathbf{n}} </math> points in the direction from medium 2 to medium 1.<ref>{{harvnb|Griffiths|1999|p=332}}</ref>
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| Similarly, a [[surface integral]] of {{math|'''H'''}} over any [[closed surface]] is independent of the free currents and picks out the 'magnetic charges' within that closed surface:
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| :<math>\oint_S \mu_0 \mathbf{H} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{A} = \oint_S (\mathbf{B}- \mu_0 \mathbf{M})\cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{A}= (0 - (-q_M)) = q_M,</math>
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| which does not depend on the free currents.
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| The {{math|'''H'''}}-field, therefore, can be separated into two<ref group="nb">A third term is needed for changing electric fields and polarization currents; this displacement current term is covered in Maxwell's equations below.</ref> independent parts:
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| :<math>\mathbf{H} = \mathbf{H}_0 + \mathbf{H}_d, \,</math>
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| where {{math|'''H'''<sub>0</sub>}} is the applied magnetic field due only to the free currents and {{math|'''H'''<sub>d</sub>}} is the [[demagnetizing field]] due only to the bound currents.
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| The magnetic {{math|'''H'''}}-field, therefore, re-factors the bound current in terms of 'magnetic charges'. The {{math|'''H'''}} field lines loop only around 'free current' and, unlike the magnetic {{math|'''B'''}} field, begins and ends near magnetic poles as well.
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| ===Magnetism===
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| {{Main|Magnetism}}
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| Most materials respond to an applied {{math|'''B'''}}-field by producing their own magnetization {{math|'''M'''}} and therefore their own {{math|'''B'''}}-field. Typically, the response is very weak and exists only when the magnetic field is applied. The term ''magnetism'' describes how materials respond on the microscopic level to an applied magnetic field and is used to categorize the magnetic [[phase (matter)|phase]] of a material. Materials are divided into groups based upon their magnetic behavior:
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| *[[diamagnetism|Diamagnetic materials]]<ref name=Tilley>
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| {{cite book |title=Understanding Solids |author=RJD Tilley |page=368 |isbn=0-470-85275-5 |publisher=Wiley |year=2004 |url=http://books.google.com/?id=ZVgOLCXNoMoC&pg=PA368 }}
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| </ref> produce a magnetization that opposes the magnetic field.
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| *[[paramagnetism|Paramagnetic materials]]<ref name=Tilley/> produce a magnetization in the same direction as the applied magnetic field.
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| *[[Ferromagnetism|Ferromagnetic materials]] and the closely related [[Ferrimagnetism|ferrimagnetic materials]] and [[Antiferromagnetism|antiferromagnetic materials]]<ref name=Chikazumi>
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| {{cite book |title=Physics of ferromagnetism|author=Sōshin Chikazumi, Chad D. Graham |url=http://books.google.com/?id=AZVfuxXF2GsC&printsec=frontcover |page=118 |edition=2|year=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-851776-9}}</ref><ref name=Aharoni>
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| {{cite book |title=Introduction to the theory of ferromagnetism |page=27 |author=Amikam Aharoni |url=http://books.google.com/?id=9RvNuIDh0qMC&pg=PA27 |edition=2 |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-850808-5}}
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| </ref> can have a magnetization independent of an applied B-field with a complex relationship between the two fields.
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| *[[Superconductor]]s (and [[ferromagnetic superconductor]]s)<ref name=Bennemann>
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| {{cite book |title=Superconductivity |editor=K. H. Bennemann, John B. Ketterson |url=http://books.google.com/?id=PguAgEQTiQwC&pg=PA640 |page=640 |isbn=3-540-73252-7 |year=2008 |publisher=Springer |chapter=Unconventional superconductivity in novel materials |author=M Brian Maple ''et al.''}}
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| </ref><ref name=Lewis>
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| {{cite book |title=Superconductivity research at the leading edge |author=Naoum Karchev |editor=Paul S. Lewis, D. Di (CON) Castro |url=http://books.google.com/?id=3AFo_yxBkD0C&pg=PA169 |page=169 |isbn=1-59033-861-8 |publisher=Nova Publishers |year=2003 |chapter=Itinerant ferromagnetism and superconductivity}}
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| </ref> are materials that are characterized by perfect conductivity below a critical temperature and magnetic field. They also are highly magnetic and can be perfect diamagnets below a lower critical magnetic field. Superconductors often have a broad range of temperatures and magnetic fields (the so named [[Type II superconductor#Mixed state|mixed state]]) under which they exhibit a complex hysteretic dependence of {{math|'''M'''}} on {{math|'''B'''}}.
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| In the case of paramagnetism and diamagnetism, the magnetization {{math|'''M'''}} is often proportional to the applied magnetic field such that:
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| :<math>\mathbf{B} = \mu \mathbf{H},</math>
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| where {{math|''μ''}} is a material dependent parameter called the [[permeability (electromagnetism)|permeability]]. In some cases the permeability may be a second rank [[tensor]] so that {{math|'''H'''}} may not point in the same direction as {{math|'''B'''}}. These relations between {{math|'''B'''}} and {{math|'''H'''}} are examples of [[constitutive equation]]s. However, superconductors and ferromagnets have a more complex {{math|'''B'''}} to {{math|'''H'''}} relation; see [[hysteresis#Magnetic hysteresis|magnetic hysteresis]].
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| ==Energy stored in magnetic fields==
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| {{Main|Magnetic energy}}
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| {{see also|Hysteresis#Magnetic hysteresis|l1=Magnetic hysteresis}}
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| Energy is needed to generate a magnetic field both to work against the electric field that a changing magnetic field creates and to change the magnetization of any material within the magnetic field. For non-dispersive materials this same energy is released when the magnetic field is destroyed so that this energy can be modeled as being stored in the magnetic field.
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| For linear, non-dispersive, materials (such that {{math|1='''B''' = ''μ'''''H'''}} where {{math|''μ''}} is frequency-independent), the [[energy density]] is:
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| :<math> u = \frac{\mathbf{B}\cdot\mathbf{H}}{2}= \frac{\mathbf{B}\cdot\mathbf{B}}{2\mu} = \frac{\mu\mathbf{H}\cdot\mathbf{H}}{2}.</math>
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| If there are no magnetic materials around then {{math|''μ''}} can be replaced by {{math|''μ''<sub>0</sub>}}. The above equation cannot be used for nonlinear materials, though; a more general expression given below must be used.
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| In general, the incremental amount of work per unit volume {{math|''δW''}} needed to cause a small change of magnetic field {{math|''δ'''''B'''}} is:
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| :<math>\delta W = \mathbf{H}\cdot\delta\mathbf{B}.</math>
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| Once the relationship between {{math|'''H'''}} and {{math|'''B'''}} is known this equation is used to determine the work needed to reach a given magnetic state. For [[Hysteresis|hysteretic materials]] such as ferromagnets and superconductors, the work needed also depends on how the magnetic field is created. For linear non-dispersive materials, though, the general equation leads directly to the simpler energy density equation given above.
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| ==Electromagnetism: the relationship between magnetic and electric fields==
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| {{Main|Electromagnetism}}
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| ===Faraday's Law: Electric force due to a changing B-field===
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| {{Main|Faraday's law of induction|Magnetic flux|l1=Faraday's law}}
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| A changing magnetic field, such as a magnet moving through a conducting coil, generates an [[electric field]] (and therefore tends to drive a current in such a coil). This is known as ''Faraday's law'' and forms the basis of many [[electrical generator]]s and [[electric motor]]s.
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| Mathematically, Faraday's law is:
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| :<math>\mathcal{E} = - \frac{d\Phi_\mathrm{m}}{dt},</math>
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| where <math>\scriptstyle\mathcal{E}</math> is the [[electromotive force]] (or ''EMF'', the [[voltage]] generated around a closed loop) and {{math|Φ<sub>m</sub>}} is the ''magnetic flux''—the product of the area times the magnetic field [[Tangential and normal components|normal]] to that area. (This definition of magnetic flux is why {{math|'''B'''}} is often referred to as '''magnetic flux density'''.)
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| The negative sign is necessary and represents the fact that any current generated by a changing magnetic field in a coil produces a magnetic field that ''opposes'' the '''change''' in the magnetic field that induced it. This phenomenon is known as [[Lenz's law]].
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| This integral formulation of Faraday's law can be converted<ref group="nb" name="ex14">
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| A complete expression for Faraday's law of induction in terms of the electric {{math|'''E'''}} and magnetic fields can be written as:
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| <math>\textstyle\mathcal{E} = - \frac{d\Phi_m}{dt} </math> 
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| <math>\textstyle= \oint_{\partial \Sigma (t)}\left( \mathbf{E}( \mathbf{r},\ t) +\mathbf{ v \times B}(\mathbf{r},\ t)\right) \cdot d\boldsymbol{\ell}\ </math> 
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| <math>\textstyle=-\frac {d} {dt} \iint_{\Sigma (t)} d \boldsymbol {A} \cdot \mathbf {B}(\mathbf{r},\ t),</math>
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| where {{math|'''∂Σ'''(''t'')}} is the moving closed path bounding the moving surface {{math|'''Σ'''(''t'')}}, and {{math|d'''A'''}} is an element of surface area of {{math|'''Σ'''(''t'')}}. The first integral calculates the work done moving a charge a distance {{math|d'''ℓ'''}} based upon the [[Lorentz force]] law. In the case where the bounding surface is stationary, the [[Kelvin-Stokes theorem|Kelvin–Stokes theorem]] can be used to show this equation is equivalent to the Maxwell–Faraday equation.
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| </ref> into a differential form, which applies under slightly different conditions. This form is covered as one of Maxwell's equations below.
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| ===Maxwell's correction to Ampère's Law: The magnetic field due to a changing electric field===
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| {{Main|Ampère's circuital law#Extending the original law: the Maxwell–Ampère equation|l1=Maxwell's correction to Ampère's law}}
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| Similar to the way that a changing magnetic field generates an electric field, a changing electric field generates a magnetic field. This fact is known as ''Maxwell's correction to Ampère's law''. Maxwell's correction to Ampère's Law [[bootstrapping|bootstrap]] together with Faraday's law of induction to form [[electromagnetic waves]], such as light. Thus, a changing electric field generates a changing magnetic field, which generates a changing electric field again.
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| Maxwell's correction to Ampère law is applied as an additive term to Ampere's law given above. This additive term is proportional to the time rate of change of the electric flux and is similar to Faraday's law above but with a different and positive constant out front. (The electric flux through an area is proportional to the area times the perpendicular part of the electric field.)
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| This full Ampère law including the correction term is known as the Maxwell–Ampère equation. It is not commonly given in integral form because the effect is so small that it can typically be ignored in most cases where the integral form is used. The Maxwell term ''is'' critically important in the creation and propagation of electromagnetic waves. These, though, are usually described using the differential form of this equation given below.
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| ===Maxwell's equations===
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| {{Main|Maxwell's equations}}
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| Like all vector fields, a magnetic field has two important mathematical properties that relates it to its ''sources''. (For {{math|'''B'''}} the ''sources'' are currents and changing electric fields.) These two properties, along with the two corresponding properties of the electric field, make up ''Maxwell's Equations''. Maxwell's Equations together with the Lorentz force law form a complete description of [[Classical electromagnetism|classical electrodynamics]] including both electricity and magnetism.
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| The first property is the [[divergence]] of a vector field {{math|'''A'''}}, {{math|'''∇''' · '''A'''}}, which represents how {{math|'''A'''}} 'flows' outward from a given point. As discussed above, a {{math|'''B'''}}-field line never starts or ends at a point but instead forms a complete loop. This is mathematically equivalent to saying that the divergence of {{math|'''B'''}} is zero. (Such vector fields are called [[solenoidal vector field]]s.) This property is called [[Gauss's law for magnetism]] and is equivalent to the statement that there are no isolated magnetic poles or [[magnetic monopole]]s. The electric field on the other hand begins and ends at electric charges so that its divergence is non-zero and proportional to the [[charge density]] (See [[Gauss's law]]).
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| The second mathematical property is called the [[curl (mathematics)|curl]], such that {{math|'''∇''' × '''A'''}} represents how {{math|'''A'''}} curls or 'circulates' around a given point. The result of the curl is called a 'circulation source'. The equations for the curl of {{math|'''B'''}} and of {{math|'''E'''}} are called the [[Ampère–Maxwell equation]] and [[Faraday's law of induction|Faraday's law]] respectively. They represent the differential forms of the integral equations given above.
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| The complete set of Maxwell's equations then are:
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| :<math>\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B} = 0,</math>
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| :<math>\nabla \cdot \mathbf{E} = \frac{\rho}{\epsilon_0},</math>
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| :<math>\nabla \times \mathbf{B} = \mu_0\mathbf{J} + \mu_0 \varepsilon_0 \frac{\partial \mathbf{E}} {\partial t},</math>
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| :<math>\nabla \times \mathbf{E} = - \frac{\partial \mathbf{B}} {\partial t}, </math>
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| where {{math|'''J'''}} = complete microscopic [[current density]] and {{math|''ρ''}} is the charge density.
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| [[File:BIsAPseudovector.svg|thumb|right|'''Magnetic field, like all [[pseudovector]]s, changes sign when reflected in a mirror''': When a [[electric current|current]] carrying loop (black) is [[mirror image|reflected in a mirror]] (dotted line), its magnetic field (blue) is reflected ''and'' reversed.]]
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| Technically, {{math|'''B'''}} is a [[pseudovector]] (also called an ''axial vector'') due to being defined by a vector cross product. (See diagram.)
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| As discussed above, materials respond to an applied electric {{math|'''E'''}} field and an applied magnetic {{math|'''B'''}} field by producing their own internal 'bound' charge and current distributions that contribute to {{math|'''E'''}} and {{math|'''B'''}} but are difficult to calculate. To circumvent this problem, {{math|'''H'''}} and {{math|'''D'''}} fields are used to re-factor Maxwell's equations in terms of the ''free current density'' {{math|'''J'''<sub>f</sub>}} and ''free charge density'' {{math|''ρ''<sub>f</sub>}}:
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| :<math>\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B} = 0,</math>
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| :<math>\nabla \cdot \mathbf{D} = \rho_\mathrm{f},</math>
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| :<math>\nabla \times \mathbf{H} = \mathbf{J}_\mathrm{f} + \frac{\partial \mathbf{D}} {\partial t},</math>
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| :<math>\nabla \times \mathbf{E} = - \frac{\partial \mathbf{B}} {\partial t}. </math>
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| These equations are not any more general than the original equations (if the 'bound' charges and currents in the material are known). They also need to be supplemented by the relationship between {{math|'''B'''}} and {{math|'''H'''}} as well as that between {{math|'''E'''}} and {{math|'''D'''}}. On the other hand, for simple relationships between these quantities this form of Maxwell's equations can circumvent the need to calculate the bound charges and currents.
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| ===Electric and magnetic fields: different aspects of the same phenomenon===
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| {{Main|Relativistic electromagnetism}}
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| According to [[special relativity|the special theory of relativity]], the partition of the [[electromagnetic force]] into separate electric and magnetic components is not fundamental, but varies with the [[Frame of reference#Observational frames of reference|observational frame of reference]]: An electric force perceived by one observer may be perceived by another (in a different frame of reference) as a magnetic force, or a mixture of electric and magnetic forces.
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| Formally, special relativity combines the electric and magnetic fields into a rank-2 [[tensor]], called the '''[[electromagnetic tensor]]'''. Changing reference frames ''mixes'' these components. This is analogous to the way that special relativity ''mixes'' space and time into [[spacetime]], and mass, momentum and energy into [[four-momentum]].<ref>C. Doran and A. Lasenby (2003) ''Geometric Algebra for Physicists'', Cambridge University Press, p.233</ref>
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| ===Magnetic vector potential===
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| {{Main|Magnetic potential}}
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| In advanced topics such as [[quantum mechanics]] and [[Theory of relativity|relativity]] it is often easier to work with a potential formulation of electrodynamics rather than in terms of the electric and magnetic fields. In this representation, the ''[[magnetic vector potential|vector potential]]'' {{math|'''A'''}}, and the [[electric potential|scalar potential]] {{math|''φ''}}, are defined such that:
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| :<math>\mathbf{B} = \nabla \times \mathbf{A},</math>
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| :<math>\mathbf{E} = - \nabla \varphi - \frac { \partial \mathbf{A} } { \partial t }.</math>
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| The vector potential {{math|'''A'''}} may be interpreted as a ''generalized potential [[momentum]] per unit charge''<ref>
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| {{cite journal |author=E. J. Konopinski |authorlink=Emil Konopinski |year= 1978 |title=What the electromagnetic vector potential describes |journal= Am. J. Phys. |volume= 46|issue= 5|pages= 499–502 |doi=10.1119/1.11298|bibcode = 1978AmJPh..46..499K }}
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| </ref> just as {{math|''φ''}} is interpreted as a ''generalized [[potential energy]] per unit charge''.
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| Maxwell's equations when expressed in terms of the potentials can be cast into a form that agrees with [[special relativity]] with little effort.<ref>{{harvnb|Griffiths|1999|p=422}}</ref> In relativity {{math|'''A'''}} together with {{math|''φ''}} forms the [[four-potential]], analogous to the [[Four-vector#Four-momentum|four-momentum]] that combines the momentum and energy of a particle. Using the four potential instead of the electromagnetic tensor has the advantage of being much simpler—and it can be easily modified to work with quantum mechanics.
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| ===Quantum electrodynamics===
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| {{See also|Standard Model|quantum electrodynamics}}
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| In modern physics, the electromagnetic field is understood to be not a ''[[classical physics|classical]]'' [[field (physics)|field]], but rather a [[quantum field]]; it is represented not as a vector of three [[real number|numbers]] at each point, but as a vector of three [[operator (physics)|quantum operators]] at each point. The most accurate modern description of the electromagnetic interaction (and much else) is ''quantum electrodynamics'' (QED),<ref>
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| For a good qualitative introduction see:
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| {{Cite book|first=Richard|last=Feynman|authorlink=Richard Feynman|title=[[QED (book)|QED: the strange theory of light and matter]]|year=2006|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|isbn=0-691-12575-9}}
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| </ref> which is incorporated into a more complete theory known as the ''Standard Model of particle physics''.
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| In QED, the magnitude of the electromagnetic interactions between charged particles (and their [[antiparticle]]s) is computed using [[perturbation theory (quantum mechanics)|perturbation theory]]; these rather complex formulas have a remarkable pictorial representation as [[Feynman diagram]]s in which [[virtual photon]]s are exchanged.
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| Predictions of QED agree with experiments to an extremely high degree of accuracy: currently about 10<sup>−12</sup> (and limited by experimental errors); for details see [[precision tests of QED]]. This makes QED one of the most accurate physical theories constructed thus far.
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| All equations in this article are in the [[classical electromagnetism|classical approximation]], which is less accurate than the quantum description mentioned here. However, under most everyday circumstances, the difference between the two theories is negligible.
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| ==Important uses and examples of magnetic field==
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| ===Earth's magnetic field===
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| {{Main|Earth's magnetic field}}
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| [[Image:Earths Magnetic Field Confusion.svg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|A sketch of Earth's magnetic field representing the source of the field as a magnet. The geographic north pole of Earth is near the top of the diagram, the south pole near the bottom. The south pole of that magnet is deep in Earth's interior below Earth's North Magnetic Pole.]]
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| The Earth's magnetic field is thought to be produced by convection currents in the outer liquid of Earth's core. The [[Dynamo theory]] proposes that these movements produce electric currents that, in turn, produce the magnetic field.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Herbert |first=Yahreas |date=June 1954 |title=What makes the earth Wobble |journal=Popular Science |location=New York |publisher=Godfrey Hammond |page=266 |url=http://books.google.com/?id=NiEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96&dq=What+makes+the+earth+wobble&q=What%20makes%20the%20earth%20wobble}}</ref>
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| The presence of this field causes a compass, placed anywhere within it, to rotate so that the "north pole" of the magnet in the compass points roughly north, toward Earth's [[North Magnetic Pole]]. This is the traditional definition of the "north pole" of a magnet, although other equivalent definitions are also possible.
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| One confusion that arises from this definition is that, if Earth itself is considered as a magnet, the ''south'' pole of that magnet would be the one nearer the north magnetic pole, and vice-versa. The north magnetic pole is so-named not because of the polarity of the field there but because of its geographical location. The north and south poles of a permanent magnet are so-called because they are "north-seeking" and "south-seeking", respectively.<ref>{{cite book|last=Serway|first=Raymond A.|title=College physics|year=2009|publisher=Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning|location=Belmont, CA|isbn=978-0-495-38693-3|edition=8th |coauthors=Chris Vuille, Jerry S. Faughn |page=628}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/magnets.htm |title=Magnets |last=Kurtus |first=Ron |year=2004 |work=School for champions: Physics topics |accessdate=17 July 2010}}</ref>
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| The figure is a sketch of Earth's magnetic field represented by field lines. For most locations, the magnetic field has a significant up/down component in addition to the North/South component. (There is also an East/West component; Earth's magnetic poles do not coincide exactly with Earth's geological pole.) The magnetic field can be visualised as a bar magnet buried deep in Earth's interior.
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| Earth's magnetic field is not constant—the strength of the field and the location of its poles vary. Moreover, the poles periodically reverse their orientation in a process called [[geomagnetic reversal]]. The [[Brunhes–Matuyama reversal|most recent reversal]] occurred 780,000 years ago.
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| ===Rotating magnetic fields===
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| {{Main|Rotating magnetic field|Alternator}}
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| The ''rotating magnetic field'' is a key principle in the operation of [[electric motor#AC motors|alternating-current motors]]. A permanent magnet in such a field rotates so as to maintain its alignment with the external field. This effect was conceptualized by [[Nikola Tesla]], and later utilized in his, and others', early AC ([[Alternating current|alternating-current]]) electric motors.
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| A rotating magnetic field can be constructed using two orthogonal coils with 90 degrees phase difference in their AC currents. However, in practice such a system would be supplied through a three-wire arrangement with unequal currents.
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| This inequality would cause serious problems in standardization of the conductor size and so, to overcome it, [[three-phase]] systems are used where the three currents are equal in magnitude and have 120 degrees phase difference. Three similar coils having mutual geometrical angles of 120 degrees create the rotating magnetic field in this case. The ability of the three-phase system to create a rotating field, utilized in electric motors, is one of the main reasons why three-phase systems dominate the world's [[electrical power]] supply systems.
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| Because magnets degrade with time, [[synchronous motor]]s use DC voltage fed rotor windings, which allows the excitation of the machine to be controlled and [[induction motor]]s use short-circuited [[Rotor (electric)|rotors]] (instead of a magnet) following the rotating magnetic field of a multicoiled [[stator]]. The short-circuited turns of the rotor develop [[eddy current]]s in the rotating field of the stator, and these currents in turn move the rotor by the [[Lorentz force]].
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| In 1882, Nikola Tesla identified the concept of the rotating magnetic field. In 1885, [[Galileo Ferraris]] independently researched the concept. In 1888, Tesla gained {{US patent|381968}} for his work. Also in 1888, Ferraris published his research in a paper to the ''Royal Academy of Sciences'' in [[Turin]].
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| ===Hall effect===
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| {{Main|Hall effect}}
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| The charge carriers of a current carrying conductor placed in a transverse magnetic field experience a sideways Lorentz force; this results in a charge separation in a direction perpendicular to the current and to the magnetic field. The resultant voltage in that direction is proportional to the applied magnetic field. This is known as the ''Hall effect''.
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| The ''Hall effect'' is often used to measure the magnitude of a magnetic field. It is used as well to find the sign of the dominant charge carriers in materials such as semiconductors (negative electrons or positive holes).
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| ===Magnetic circuits===
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| {{Main|Magnetic circuit}}
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| An important use of {{math|'''H'''}} is in ''magnetic circuits'' where {{math|1='''B''' = ''μ'''''H'''}} inside a linear material. Here, {{math|''μ''}} is the [[magnetic permeability]] of the material. This result is similar in form to [[Ohm's law]] {{math|'''J''' {{=}} ''σ'''''E'''}}, where {{math|'''J'''}} is the current density, {{math|''σ''}} is the conductance and {{math|'''E'''}} is the electric field. Extending this analogy, the counterpart to the macroscopic Ohm's law ({{math|1=''I'' = ''V''⁄''R''}}) is:
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| :<math>\Phi = \frac F R_\mathrm{m},</math>
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| where <math>\Phi = \int \mathbf{B}\cdot d\mathbf{A}</math> is the magnetic flux in the circuit, <math>F = \int \mathbf{H}\cdot d\boldsymbol{\ell}</math> is the [[magnetomotive force]] applied to the circuit, and {{math|''R''<sub>m</sub>}} is the [[reluctance]] of the circuit. Here the reluctance {{math|''R''<sub>m</sub>}} is a quantity similar in nature to [[Electrical resistance|resistance]] for the flux.
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| Using this analogy it is straightforward to calculate the magnetic flux of complicated magnetic field geometries, by using all the available techniques of [[circuit theory]].
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| ===Magnetic field shape descriptions===
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| [[Image:Magnetic quadrupole moment.svg|right|thumb|Schematic [[quadrupole magnet]] ("''four-pole''") magnetic field. There are four steel pole tips, two opposing magnetic north poles and two opposing magnetic south poles.]]
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| *An ''azimuthal'' magnetic field is one that runs east-west.
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| *A ''meridional'' magnetic field is one that runs north-south. In the [[solar dynamo]] model of the Sun, [[differential rotation]] of the solar plasma causes the meridional magnetic field to stretch into an azimuthal magnetic field, a process called the ''omega-effect''. The reverse process is called the ''alpha-effect''.<ref>[http://www.cora.nwra.com/~werne/eos/text/dynamo.html The Solar Dynamo], retrieved September 15, 2007.</ref>
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| *A [[magnetic dipole|''dipole'' magnetic field]] is one seen around a bar magnet or around a [[electric charge|charged]] [[elementary particle]] with nonzero [[spin (physics)|spin]].
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| *A [[quadrupole magnet|''quadrupole'' magnetic field]] is one seen, for example, between the poles of four bar magnets. The field strength grows linearly with the radial distance from its longitudinal axis.
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| *A ''solenoidal'' magnetic field is similar to a dipole magnetic field, except that a solid bar magnet is replaced by a hollow electromagnetic coil magnet.
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| *A ''toroidal'' magnetic field occurs in a doughnut-shaped coil, the electric current spiraling around the tube-like surface, and is found, for example, in a [[tokamak]].
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| *A ''poloidal'' magnetic field is generated by a current flowing in a ring, and is found, for example, in a [[tokamak]].
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| *A ''radial'' magnetic field is one in which the field lines are directed from the center outwards, similar to the spokes in a bicycle wheel. An example can be found in a [[loudspeaker]] transducers (driver).<ref>I. S. Falconer and M. I. Large (edited by I. M. Sefton), "[http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/life_sciences/electricity.html Magnetism: Fields and Forces]" Lecture E6, The University of Sydney, retrieved 3 October 2008</ref>
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| *A ''helical'' magnetic field is corkscrew-shaped, and sometimes seen in space plasmas such as the [[Orion Molecular Cloud Complex|Orion Molecular Cloud]].<ref>Robert Sanders, "[http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/01/12_helical.shtml Astronomers find magnetic Slinky in Orion]", 12 January 2006 at UC Berkeley. Retrieved 3 October 2008</ref>
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| ===Magnetic dipoles===
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| [[Image:VFPt dipole magnetic3.svg|thumbnail|Magnetic field lines around a ”magnetostatic dipole” pointing to the right.]]
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| {{Main|Magnetic dipole}}
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| {{See also|Spin magnetic moment|Micromagnetism}}
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| The magnetic field of a magnetic dipole is depicted in the figure. From outside, the ideal magnetic dipole is identical to that of an ideal electric dipole of the same strength. Unlike the electric dipole, a magnetic dipole is properly modeled as a current loop having a current {{math|''I''}} and an area {{math|''a''}}. Such a current loop has a magnetic moment of:
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| :<math>m=Ia, \,</math>
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| where the direction of {{math|'''m'''}} is perpendicular to the area of the loop and depends on the direction of the current using the right-hand rule. An ideal magnetic dipole is modeled as a real magnetic dipole whose area {{math|''a''}} has been reduced to zero and its current {{math|''I''}} increased to infinity such that the product {{math|1=''m'' = ''Ia''}} is finite. This model clarifies the connection between angular momentum and magnetic moment, which is the basis of the [[Einstein-de Haas effect]] ''rotation by magnetization'' and its inverse, the [[Barnett effect]] or ''magnetization by rotation''.<ref name=Graham>(See [[Magnetic moment#Magnetic dipoles|magnetic moment]] for further information.)
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| {{cite book |title=Introduction to Magnetic Materials |author=B. D. Cullity, C. D. Graham |url=http://books.google.com/?id=ixAe4qIGEmwC&pg=PA103 |page=103 |isbn=0-471-47741-9 |year=2008 |publisher=Wiley-IEEE |edition=2}}
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| </ref> Rotating the loop faster (in the same direction) increases the current and therefore the magnetic moment, for example.
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| It is sometimes useful to model the magnetic dipole similar to the electric dipole with two equal but opposite magnetic charges (one south the other north) separated by distance {{math|''d''}}. This model produces an {{math|'''H'''}}-field not a {{math|'''B'''}}-field. Such a model is deficient, though, both in that there are no magnetic charges and in that it obscures the link between electricity and magnetism. Further, as discussed above it fails to explain the inherent connection between [[angular momentum]] and magnetism.
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| ===Magnetic monopole (hypothetical)===
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| {{Main|Magnetic monopole}}
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| A ''magnetic monopole'' is a hypothetical particle (or class of particles) that has, as its name suggests, only one magnetic pole (either a north pole or a south pole). In other words, it would possess a "magnetic charge" analogous to an electric charge. Magnetic field lines would start or end on magnetic monopoles, so if they exist, they would give exceptions to the rule that magnetic field lines neither start nor end.
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| Modern interest in this concept stems from [[high-energy physics|particle theories]], notably [[Grand Unified Theory|Grand Unified Theories]] and [[superstring theory|superstring theories]], that predict either the existence, or the possibility, of magnetic monopoles. These theories and others have inspired extensive efforts to search for monopoles. Despite these efforts, no magnetic monopole has been observed to date.<ref group="nb" name="ex10">Two experiments produced candidate events that were initially interpreted as monopoles, but these are now regarded to be inconclusive. For details and references, see [[magnetic monopole]].</ref>
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| In recent research, materials known as [[spin ice]]s can simulate monopoles, but do not contain actual monopoles.<ref name="monopole">{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015085916.htm |title='Magnetricity' Observed And Measured For First Time |publisher=''[[Science Daily]]'' |date=2009-10-15 |accessdate=2010-06-10 }}</ref><ref name="MonopoleReview">{{citation |last=Gingras |first=M.J.P. |year=2009 |title=Observing Monopoles in a Magnetic Analog of Ice |journal=Science |volume=326 |issue=5951 |pages=375–376 |doi=10.1126/science.1181510 |url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/326/5951/375 }}</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| ===General===
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| *[[Magnetohydrodynamics]] – the study of the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids.
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| *[[Magnetic nanoparticles]] – extremely small magnetic particles that are tens of atoms wide
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| *[[Magnetic reconnection]] – an effect that causes [[solar flare]]s and auroras.
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| *[[Magnetic potential]] – the vector and [[scalar potential]] representation of magnetism.
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| *[[SI electromagnetism units]] – common units used in electromagnetism.
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| *[[Orders of magnitude (magnetic field)]] – list of magnetic field sources and measurement devices from smallest magnetic fields to largest detected.
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| *[[Upward continuation]]
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| ===Mathematics===
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| *[[Magnetic helicity]] – extent to which a magnetic field wraps around itself.
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| ===Applications===
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| *[[Dynamo theory]] – a proposed mechanism for the creation of the Earth's magnetic field.
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| *[[Helmholtz coil]] – a device for producing a region of nearly uniform magnetic field.
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| *[[Magnetic field viewing film]] – Film used to view the magnetic field of an area.
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| *[[Maxwell coil]] – a device for producing a large volume of an almost constant magnetic field.
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| *[[Stellar magnetic field]] – a discussion of the magnetic field of stars.
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| *[[Teltron tube]] – device used to display an electron beam and demonstrates effect of electric and magnetic fields on moving charges.
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| ==Notes==
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| ==References==
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| *{{Cite book|last=Jiles |first=David |year=1994 |title=Introduction to Electronic Properties of Materials |edition=1st ed |publisher=Springer |isbn=0-412-49580-5}}
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| *{{cite journal|first=Yaakov |last=Kraftmakher |url=http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0143-0807/22/5/302 |title=Two experiments with rotating magnetic field |year=2001 |journal=Eur. J. Phys. |volume=22 |pages=477–482}}
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| *{{cite journal|first=Sonia |last=Melle |first2=Miguel A. |last2=Rubio |first3=Gerald G. |last3=Fuller |url=http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v61/i4/p4111_1 |title=Structure and dynamics of magnetorheological fluids in rotating magnetic fields |journal=Phys. Rev. E |volume=61 |pages=4111–4117 |year=2000|bibcode = 2000PhRvE..61.4111M |doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.4111 }}
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| *{{Cite book | author=Rao, Nannapaneni N. | title=Elements of engineering electromagnetics (4th ed.)| publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |year=1994 |isbn=0-13-948746-8 | oclc=221993786}}
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| *{{cite journal|first=Bogdan|last=Mielnik |first2=David J. Fernández C. |url=http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JMAPAQ000030000002000537000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes |title=An electron trapped in a rotating magnetic field |journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics |year=1989 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=537–549|bibcode = 1989JMP....30..537M |doi = 10.1063/1.528419 }}
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| *{{cite book |title= A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity|last= Whittaker|first=E. T. |authorlink=E. T. Whittaker |year= 1951 |publisher= [[Dover Publications]]|isbn=0-486-26126-3 |page=34 |url=http://www.archive.org/details/historyoftheorie00whitrich |ref=harv}}
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| *Crowell, B., "''[http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/0sn/ch11/ch11.html Electromagnetism]''".
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| *Nave, R., "''[http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/magfie.html Magnetic Field]''". HyperPhysics.
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| *"''Magnetism''", [http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/mag/node2.html#SECTION00110000000000000000 The Magnetic Field]. theory.uwinnipeg.ca.
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| *Hoadley, Rick, "''[http://my.execpc.com/~rhoadley/magfield.htm What do magnetic fields look like]?''" 17 July 2005.
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| ===Field density===
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| *{{Cite web
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| | title = magnetic field strength converter
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| | url = http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/magnetic-field-strength.html
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| ===Rotating magnetic fields===
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| *"''[http://www.tpub.com/neets/book5/18a.htm Rotating magnetic fields]''". Integrated Publishing.
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| *"''Introduction to Generators and Motors''", [http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14177/css/14177_87.htm rotating magnetic field]. Integrated Publishing.
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| *"''[http://web.archive.org/web/20050929102550/http://www.egr.msu.edu/~jurkovi4/Experiment4.pdf Induction Motor – Rotating Fields]''".
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| ===Diagrams===
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| * "''AC Motor Theory''" [http://www.tpub.com/content/doe/h1011v4/css/h1011v4_23.htm Figure 2 Rotating Magnetic Field]. Integrated Publishing.
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| * "''Magnetic Fields''" [http://www.first4magnets.com/ekmps/shops/trainer27/resources/Other/magnetic-fields.pdf Arc & Mitre Magnetic Field Diagrams]. Magnet Expert Ltd.
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