Magnetic field is measured in SI units of a tesla (T), and a current through a wire generates a field around the wire. The largest fields that we can make with most normal conducting materials carrying current are limited by the resistance of the wire and are around 1 tesla. For comparison, Earth's magnetic field is roughly 50 micro tesla You may have heard of a field unit called a gauss. It takes 10,000 G to make 1 T. What would be the maximum force on a wire 0.1 m long carrying a current of 80 A in a uniform magnetic field of 1 T? 8 N when the wire is perpendicular to the field
80 N when the wire is perpendicular to the field
8 N when the wire is parallel to the field
80 N when the wire is parallel to the field