Physics GCSE
Vector directions and reversals
What Vector directions and reversals means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Vector directions and reversals
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Reference: OCR
Reversing the current reverses the force, and reversing the field also reverses it.
Topics that use Vector directions and reversals
- Uses of magnetism (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Applying and rearranging equations
- Force direction and orientation
- Force on a current-carrying conductor
- Induced current and its magnetic field
- Induced potential difference from a changing magnetic flux
- Magnetic field around a current
- magnetic flux density
- magnetic flux density in tesla
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