• Question: what is electromagnism

    Asked by anon-246486 to Megan, Katherine, Jesse, Dave, AJ, Amelia on 12 Mar 2020.
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      Jesse Dykes answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      It turns out that if you apply relativity to the movement of electrons, you can prove that electricity and magnetism are the same thing. They behave different most of the time, but for some situations they are truly one force, called electromagnetism.

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      Megan Maunder answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      It’s a fundamental force of nature, used to describe how magnetic fields form by the movement of electric currents.

    • Photo: Dave Constable

      Dave Constable answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      Electromagnetism is a force, which is generated when charged particles move. Charged particles generate an electric field, and if they move, they will generate a magnetic field. We’ll often consider the two fields together and call it an electromagnetic field.

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