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Fleming Left Hand Rule Physics Question

fleming.jpg

i know the force on the LHS is into the paper and the force on the RHS is out of the paper, so wouldnt that make the coil turn anticlockwise?
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Clockwise when viewed from above... so your eyeball would be looking down from somewhere near the letter x.
current would be coming up on the left and going down on the right
Original post by OhNoStudent
fleming.jpg

i know the force on the LHS is into the paper and the force on the RHS is out of the paper, so wouldnt that make the coil turn anticlockwise?

TSR_coil_anticlockwise.JPG

If you position your eye as shown in the diagram above, we will see that the coil turns anticlockwise.


But the description given by the solution is positioning the eye as shown below.
TSR_coil_clockwise.JPG

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