I've been learning about electromagnetism and recently saw the Lorentz Equation. I have questions that keeps bothering me and I could not figure it out by myself.
- So when we put two different poles of a magnet at a distance and then roll an iron ball in the middle of them; the ball accelerates due to the Force being perpendicular to both electric and magnetic field and all. The part that I do not understand is there is an increase in kinetic energy of the object but the magnetic field does no work since when we take the work integral , due to cross-product and v being parallel to ds, the dot product becomes 0. Then it is the electric field that does work on the iron ball. But then why does increasing the Tesla of the magnet increase $\Delta E$ of the object, since Tesla is the unit of the magnetic field, not the electric field shouldn't it change nothing?
- I know that Lorentz Force can be calculated with particles with known charges. How can the Lorentz force be calculated for solid objects such as metal balls?
- Can I calculate how much Tesla a magnet is from the Lorentz Force or from how much $\Delta E$ the object gained during a limited time period or distance?