Title: 5. Magnetostatics
15. Magnetostatics
2Early evidence for the magnetic field.
3Magnetic Field
Bar magnet
Magnetic field lines
4Magnetic Field of the Earth
Direction measured by a compass.
5Oersted, in 1820
What he saw.
6Qersteds experiment, modern version
7Biot and Savert found that the force on a compass
encircles a wire. Formulated the Biot-Savert law.
8Ampere stated that all magnetic field are
generated by currents. The elementary magnetic
dipoles are current loops.
9How does the field act on the moving charge?
How is the field generated by the moving charges?
10Lorentzs law
11Example 5.2 Cyclotron Motion
12Cloud Chamber
1.6 MeV proton
7 MeV alpha
13The Cylcotron
O. E. Lawrence M. S. Livingston 1934
14Magnetic Bottle
15Van Allen Belts
Protons and electrons from the solar wind are
trapped by the earths magnetic field.
16Currents
Line current I
1 A 1 C/s
17Magnetic forces do not work!
18Example 5.3
B points into the page.
19Surface current density
20Volume current density
21Example 5.4
22Biot-Savart Law
Magnetostatics Steady currents
23Example 5.5
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25Example 5.6
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26Superposition principle for the magnetic field
gives the different versions of the Biot-Savart
law.