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		Certhas on March 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnet... Thank you, that's the kind of point I was looking for. Why does JxB scale quadratically? Because a stronger field can contain (linearly) more current?

pfdietz on March 9, 2024 [–]

If you double the current J, you double the magnetic field B.

But the JxB force is now quadrupled, because you doubled both J and B.

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