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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A positive charge is moving from the floor of a room toward the ceiling. A magnetic field runs from east to west. In what direction is the magnetic force on the moving positive charge?Select one of the options below as your answer: A. toward the north B. toward the south C. toward the east D. toward the west E. toward the floor

OpenStudy (souvik):

do you know cross product of two vectors?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

nope

OpenStudy (anonymous):

would it be c

OpenStudy (souvik):

you have to learn it first...

OpenStudy (anonymous):

whats perpendicular again?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

nomagnetic feild is pependicular to velocity of charge

OpenStudy (souvik):

force on the charge is perpendicular to both magnetic field and velocity of the charge... http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vvec.html#vvc1

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