How are electricity and magnetism related?

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compassionate · Answer

Electricity and magnetism are related through electromagnetism. They're both a moving current of electrons.

theeric · Answer

Electricity is vague, but you might think of it as the movement of charges, or current. When charges move, they create a magnetic field.

When charges move through a magnetic field, they experience a force.

isaiah.feynman · Answer

Michael Faraday's little experiment, he connected a wire to an ammeter and passed it through  a magnetic field and the needle deflected! Then he passed a magnet through an electric field the same thing happened. It dawned on him that this two phenomena must be manifestations of the same thing!