The Hall Effect (Warning: Physics Geek Mode Required)

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <s4cf766f.002@wppost.depaul.edu> Alex Kowalski (audial@aol.com) (Tonya Jones) writes:

> <GEEK MODE ON>

> Here it is from Nasa's thesaurus:
> http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesaurus/H/word6482.html
> 
> HALL EFFECT:
> 
> The electrical polarization of a horizontal conducting sheet of limited
> extent, when that sheet moves laterally through a magnetic field having a
> component vertical to the sheet.

NASA's wrong.  The 'sheet' doesn't have to move.  A sheet that is stationary in 
a magnetic field is also polarised.

> <GEEK MODE OFF>

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 Phil Payne
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