• Instigate@aussie.zone
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    22 days ago

    We were taught a similar trick in physics - point your right-hand thumb in the direction that current (or electrons, same same) is travelling and the curling of your fingers shows the direction of the resultant magnetic field that the current creates.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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      22 days ago

      I teach physics. A prof of mine taught me the right hand rule applies to right handed bolts. No accident they are named that. I teach this to students now. Maybe 1 in 10 like it. The rest prefer their old rhyme. Oh well. Can’t say I didn’t try