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Can someone please explain to me how to work out which way the current is flowing in a diagram! Like, if it's going anticlockwise do we point the current finger towards us or the other way?
And also, what is the right hand rule by the way?? Is the same as the left hand rule but to work out the current on our right hands??
Please Help! GCSE tomorrow and I'm freaking!
And also, what is the right hand rule by the way?? Is the same as the left hand rule but to work out the current on our right hands??
Please Help! GCSE tomorrow and I'm freaking!
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(Original post by nerdygeek101)
Can someone please explain to me how to work out which way the current is flowing in a diagram! Like, if it's going anticlockwise do we point the current finger towards us or the other way?
And also, what is the right hand rule by the way?? Is the same as the left hand rule but to work out the current on our right hands??
Please Help! GCSE tomorrow and I'm freaking!
Can someone please explain to me how to work out which way the current is flowing in a diagram! Like, if it's going anticlockwise do we point the current finger towards us or the other way?
And also, what is the right hand rule by the way?? Is the same as the left hand rule but to work out the current on our right hands??
Please Help! GCSE tomorrow and I'm freaking!
The right hand dynamo rule is used to work out the direction of an induced current due to the change in magnetic field strength near a conductor. It follows the same conventions as the left hand rule, the second finger represents conventional current flow. I doubt there will be a question about this in GCSE though.
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Ignore right hand rule for now, just concentrate on the left hand rule.
If you're given a question which asks "what direction will movement be" and you've been given the current and magnetic field direction, you use it to work out the direction of movement.
So you just work out by holding your hand out accordingly.
eg if the field direction is straight up and the current direction is left to right, the movement will be directly towards you.
Ignore right hand rule for now, just concentrate on the left hand rule.
If you're given a question which asks "what direction will movement be" and you've been given the current and magnetic field direction, you use it to work out the direction of movement.
So you just work out by holding your hand out accordingly.
eg if the field direction is straight up and the current direction is left to right, the movement will be directly towards you.
Okay but in a diagram of a circuit, they tell us which way the current flows right? So how do we know which way to point the current? When you say left to right' do you mean anticlockwise??
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(Original post by nerdygeek101)
Can someone please explain to me how to work out which way the current is flowing in a diagram! Like, if it's going anticlockwise do we point the current finger towards us or the other way?
And also, what is the right hand rule by the way?? Is the same as the left hand rule but to work out the current on our right hands??
Please Help! GCSE tomorrow and I'm freaking!
Can someone please explain to me how to work out which way the current is flowing in a diagram! Like, if it's going anticlockwise do we point the current finger towards us or the other way?
And also, what is the right hand rule by the way?? Is the same as the left hand rule but to work out the current on our right hands??
Please Help! GCSE tomorrow and I'm freaking!
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This never works for me. For example, there is a question on a simple electric motor and the current is flowing in an anti-clockwise direction and you are asked to find the direction the motor will spin (it's motion).
If I point the current finger forward on the right side of the motor as I look at it the motion finger points upwards. If I point the current finger back towards myself for the left side of the motor as I look at it the motion is still upwards, and both sides can't move upwards: one has to move downwards.
please can someone explain what I am doing wrong.
If I point the current finger forward on the right side of the motor as I look at it the motion finger points upwards. If I point the current finger back towards myself for the left side of the motor as I look at it the motion is still upwards, and both sides can't move upwards: one has to move downwards.
please can someone explain what I am doing wrong.
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(Original post by Connorbwfc)
This never works for me. For example, there is a question on a simple electric motor and the current is flowing in an anti-clockwise direction and you are asked to find the direction the motor will spin (it's motion).
If I point the current finger forward on the right side of the motor as I look at it the motion finger points upwards. If I point the current finger back towards myself for the left side of the motor as I look at it the motion is still upwards, and both sides can't move upwards: one has to move downwards.
please can someone explain what I am doing wrong.
This never works for me. For example, there is a question on a simple electric motor and the current is flowing in an anti-clockwise direction and you are asked to find the direction the motor will spin (it's motion).
If I point the current finger forward on the right side of the motor as I look at it the motion finger points upwards. If I point the current finger back towards myself for the left side of the motor as I look at it the motion is still upwards, and both sides can't move upwards: one has to move downwards.
please can someone explain what I am doing wrong.
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Please see my image to see what I mean.
(Original post by Arithmeticae)
The direction of force will always be reversed on the opposite side, as the current is flowing in the opposite direction.
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The direction of force will always be reversed on the opposite side, as the current is flowing in the opposite direction.
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Please see my image to see what I mean.
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(Original post by AlphaNick)
Key points to remember:
- current flows from positive to negative (terminals on a cell)
- magnetic field flows from north to south
from here you will be able to work out the directions
Key points to remember:
- current flows from positive to negative (terminals on a cell)
- magnetic field flows from north to south
from here you will be able to work out the directions
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