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Friday, May 30, 2014

Hall Effect

From the previous post B generated by a moving charge/dipole, has a E component perpendicular to its direction along the perpendicular to the axis of of travel of the charge/dipole.  This normal component is given by,

Epn=q4πεo(a2+r22a.r.cos(θ)).sin(θ)

where a is the perpendicular distance to the axis of travel, q is the negative charge of the dipole, r is the radius of the circular path on which the negative charge is rotating and θ is the location of the negative charge on the circular path.

Since,

sin(θ)=Ra=(a2+r22a.r.cos(θ))a

Epn=q4πεo.a.(a2+r22a.r.cos(θ))

when r is small,

Epn=q4πεo.a2=B.a,   since B=14πεo.qa3

It seem that Epn has a bigger effect that B.


For a conductor placed perpendicular to the B-field, this normal E-field component Epn acts across the conductor producing a voltage difference across the surface of the conductor.  Epn could be responsible for Hall Effect.