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Re: Physics QOTD
agggh..u are right....It is late and I am still doing homework here so let me try again.


hmm...if you look at the cross section of the two wires, you could see the circular fields around them. Assuming the current is going out of the wires (or out of the page), using the right hand rule, the fields would be pointing in a ccw direction. when u look at where the two fields intersect in the middle, you have two vectors. The left vector is pointed up, and the other in pointed down. So maybe the right wire repels down in addition to gravity, and the other up???

I am guessing now...all my brain power is being used up on my english research paper on robotic parking facilities...


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