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    1 day ago

    I suspect I’m using a naive macro model and inaccurate terminology whereas you’re using a micro model and accurate terminology.

    Is there even such a thing as magnetic force? Reading up a bit, it only talks about magnetic fields.

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      16 hours ago

      There is magnetic force. A moving charge across a magnetic feild experiences it and it is always perpendicular to motion of the charge. So it changes the direction of motion. Since magnets are basically objects with electrons spinning in an oriented fashion, making a current loop(like an electromagnet), it is also appling to the macroscopic case. But the work done is probably done by electric feild in some manner as the title implies. I don’t know how exactly it plays out though.