A straightforward investigation at an introductory level of the interconnection between electricity and magnetism initially leads to the paradoxical result that a charge at rest with respect to a current‐carrying wire feels a magnetic force due to that current. Students may benefit from a presentation of this paradox and its resolution.
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© 1987 American Association of Physics Teachers.
1987
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