ChapterXV磁场MagneticField.ppt

2005-06(2) Lecture Notes WY Biot-Savart Law Introduction We have discussed how an existing magnetic field influences moving charges (and thus currents) We have not yet discussed the origin of magnetic fields We will now see that currents (moving charges) produce magnetic fields This can be thought of as the basic mechanism by which all magnetic fields are produced History 1819 Hans Christian Oersted discovered that a compass needle was deflected by a current carrying wire Then in 1820s Jean-Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart performed experiements to determine the force exerted on a compass by a