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Prentice, A.; Fatuzzo, M.; Toepker, T. – Physics Teacher, 2015
By describing the motion of a charged particle in the well-known nonuniform field of a current-carrying long straight wire, a variety of teaching/learning opportunities are described: 1) Brief review of a standard problem; 2) Vector analysis; 3) Dimensionless variables; 4) Coupled differential equations; 5) Numerical solutions.
Descriptors: Magnets, Motion, Physics, Learning Activities