Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The orthogonal force on a charged particle traveling in a magnetic field.
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- noun physics the force exerted on a
charged particle in anelectromagnetic field
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- noun the force experienced by a point charge moving along a wire that is in a magnetic field; the force is at right angles to both the current and the magnetic field
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hendrik Lorentz.]
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Named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz: Lorentz + force
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