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An electron is surrounded by an electric field. The electron is negatively charged.
A moving electric charge creates a magnetic field. Use the "right-hand rule". Point your thumb up and curl your finger a bit so your hand looks like it is holding a bottle. If the electric charge (e.g. electron) is moving in the direction of your thumb, then the magnetic field it creates moves counter-clockwise in the direction of your fingers.
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Every moving charge can produce a field?
magnetic field
The force on an electron moving in a magnetic field will be the largest when its direction is?
perpendicular to the magnetic field direction
If electrons behave like magnets then why aren't all atoms magnets?
Each electron in every atom is a tiny magnet because each electron is a charged particle, and it is in motion. Any moving charged particle will create a magnetic field around its path of travel. That makes every moving charged particle "vulnerable" to the effects of any magnetic field "across" or "through" its path of travel.
What is the velocity experienced by an electron in an electric field?
That depends on the strength of the electric field, and on the length of time the electron has been experiencing it. An electron in an electric field accelerates uniformly.
What happens to the potential energy of a stationary charge when it begins to move freely from one point to another under the influence of an electric field?
The potential energy of the particle goes down just as its kinetic energy, which results from the particle's increasing motion, increases - thereby conserving the total energy of the system. Of course these terms refer ONLY to the potential energy due to the charged particle's presence in an electric field and its change in motion in the direction of that field. If there were also a gravitational field present and the particle had mass, it would have also have potential (and kinetic, if it's falling too) energy from that field, independently of the electric field.
What is the magnetic field due to the wire at the location of the electron?
The term "magnetic field" refers to the strength of magnetism surrounding electrical currents or magnetic matter. Electrons play a large part in the process of magnetism, as moving electrons will generate a magnetic field.
Every moving charge can produce a field?
magnetic field
The force on an electron moving in a magnetic field will be the largest when its direction is?
perpendicular to the magnetic field direction
If a stationary electron sat inside a stationary magnetic field would the magnetic field cause the electron to move?
Stationary charge don't produce a magnetic field. because it has no velocity in it, without flow of electron we can't find electricity and for that we have no magnetic field for a stationary charge. It produce only electric field.
Does every charged particle produce a magnetic field?
It does if it's moving.
An electric field surrounds an electric charge What additional field surrounds a moving electric charge?
Light and all other electromagnetic waves are produced by charged particles. Every charged particle has an electric field surrounding it.
What kind of field is electricity?
Electrostatic field surrounds a stationary charge. A moving charge has magnetic and electric field surrounding it. But since the mag. field at a point due to the moving charge keeps changing, there is also an induced electric field. this ind. electric field in turn induces a magnetic field. and this goes on in a cycle. (Maxwell equation)
Why electron does not fall in one of the charged plate of opposite polarity when moving inside electric field?
An electron, being negatively charged, will move towards positively charged plates.
What is the relationship between electron and magnetism?
Electrons have a charge. Any moving charge creates an electric field, e.g. electricity moving through a wire causes a magnetic field around the wire, or the earth rotating creates a magnetic field which causes a compass to point north. Similarly all electrons have a spin factor. similar to the earth rotating, the spin of electrons create a magnetic field around the electron.
Is the electric field caused by an electron weakest near the electron?
The electric field is stronger near the electron and becomes weaker as the distance from the electron increases.
What did Sir Ernest Rutherford invent?
Ernest Rutherford discovered that the nucleus of an atom has a positive charge and discovered the evidence to show the electron field surrounding the nucleus in an atom.
If electrons behave like magnets then why aren't all atoms magnets?
Each electron in every atom is a tiny magnet because each electron is a charged particle, and it is in motion. Any moving charged particle will create a magnetic field around its path of travel. That makes every moving charged particle "vulnerable" to the effects of any magnetic field "across" or "through" its path of travel.
