What is the force on a stationary charge in a magnetic field?

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What is the force on a stationary charge in a magnetic field?

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-04T06:06:28

Zero.

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The force acting on a charge in a magnetic field is given by:

$F=abs(q_o)Bv(sinphi)$

where $abs(q_o)$ is the magnitude of the charge, $B$ is the strength of the magnetic field, $v$ is the velocity of the charge, and $phi$ is the angle between the magnetic field and the velocity.

For a stationary charge $v=0$ , which implies that the force on a stationary charge in a magnetic field is zero. This is also true of a charge moving parallel to the magnetic field, where $phi=0^o$ and therefore $sin(0^o)=0$ .

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