When an electric current is flowing through a wire, the force deflecting the charged particles is the greatest when the wire is
2 answers:
The force is greatest when the wire is perpendicular to the magnetic field.
In fact, the expression for the magnetic force is
where I is the current, L the length of the wire, B the magnetic field intensity and
is the angle between the directions of I and B.
We can see that F is maximum when
, so when 
, so when the wire and the magnetic field are perpendicular to each other.
In fact, the expression for the magnetic force is
where I is the current, L the length of the wire, B the magnetic field intensity and
We can see that F is maximum when
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- The net force is zero when at the equilibrium position
Explanation:
The motion of a spring is a Simple Harmonic Motion, in which the displacement of the end of the spring is given by a periodic function of the form
where A is the amplitude (the maximum displacement), and the angular frequency of the motion.
We can analyze the net force acting on the spring by looking at Hooke's law:
where
F is the net force
k is the spring constant
x is the displacement
From the equation, we notice immediately that:
- The net force is the greatest when the displacement x is the greates, so at the position in which the spring has maximum compression or stretching
- The net force is zero when the displacement x is zero, so when the spring crosses the equilibrium position
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