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There are a lot of videos showing the simple homopolar motors in action. Let's look at this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyraFLqfqE It is supposed to be working due to the Lorentz force.
Electrons go through the magnet, deflect under magnetic field due to the Lorentz force and colliding with atoms in the magnet, rotate it.
But what if electrons would travel not through the magnet itself but through the thin wire put between the battery and the magnet, directly connecting + and - of the battery. In this way electrons would still travel in the same direction in same magnetic field, but in the thin wire, not in the magnet. Would then the magnet rotate?
Now the other video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=zOdboRYf1hM&feature=fvwp Here electrons travel through the wire but still close to the magnet so we still can assume that electrons are deflected due to the Lorentz force even though magnetic field should be weaker on the side of the magnet.
But what would happen if everything would be glued together: battery, magnet, wire. Would then this system rotate? While the electrons would still travel under the magnetic field they should be deflected and rotate the whole system. But it sounds unphysical. Can somebody explain how it works?
Explanation / Answer
If everything is glued together the magnetic fields of moving charge and magnet would still interact. The magnetic fields would attract and condense on one side of the charge and expand on the other side creating the Lorentz force. The condensing and expanding of the magnetic fields creates a warp in space that gravitates both mass and charge together in one direction as in Einstein's gravitation theory but the space warp acts as a moving wave that deflects both the moving charge and the magnetic mass together
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