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Concepts and associated formulas that you should understand and be able to use: Absence of isolated magnetic poles, north and south magnetic poles, magnetic fields,
magnetic force on a charge, magnetic force on a current, magnetic torque on a current loop,
magnetic dipole moment, motion of charges in a magnetic field, magnetic bottles, van Allen
belt, velocity selection in crossed fields, mass spectrometer, cyclotron; Hall effect;
Biot-Savart law, magnetic force between currents, Ampere's law, magnetic fields from
currents in a wire, a loop, a solenoid, an infinite current sheet, a toroid; Gauss' law for
magnetic charges, displacement current and Maxwell-Ampere law; magnetic moments of atoms,
Bohr magneton; types of magnetic materials-paramagnetism, diamagnetism, ferromagnetism;
hysteresis, earth's magnetic field; Faraday's law, motional emf, Lenz' law, induced emf,
motors, generators, eddy currents.
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