Question: A wire bent in some arbitrary shape carries a current I in a uniform magnetic field B. Show explicitly that the total force on the

A wire bent in some arbitrary shape carries a current I in a uniform magnetic field B. Show explicitly that the total force on the part of the wire from some point a to some point b is F = Iℓ × B, where l is the vector from a to b.

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