• Question: Why do electromagnetics happen

    Asked by anon-246494 to Dave on 13 Mar 2020.
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      Dave Constable answered on 13 Mar 2020:


      Electromagnetism happens when you have a charged particle like an electron or ion, and it moves. The particle by itself creates an electric field, because it has a charge. When it moves, this generates a magnetic field, and so it now has both an electric and magnetic field. When this happens, we call this electromagnetism.

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