How does magnetic flux work? What even is it?

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>>7945686

>>7945686
They form at 90 degrees to the direction of flow (the wire)

The magnetic field can be thought of in terms of the relative change in the electric field due to the motion of electrons. The reason you get these closed loops is because whenever the strength of the E field increases when an electron flows towards it, there's a relative decrease in the E field from where it's flowing away from. When you have a wire with a continuous current flowing around it, the net strength of the E field at any point isn't going to change because whenever an electron moves out of a spot there's another to replace it, but the flow makes almost like a vortex if that makes sense? This isn't a rigorous description in the least but it was a useful conception for me when I was taking upper div E&M.

>>7945725
Any websites that might be helpful? Pages like wikipedia just tells me about the right hand rule (which I know) but im more interested in why this happens

>>7945704
>>7945725
>>7945692
Yeah, this. Think back to how sine waves are formed by trigonometric values, the flux waves form due to the tendency for electrons to form patterns based off circular shapes.

>>7945686
[eqn]
\phi = BA
[/eqn]

Just think of magnetic fields as fields formed perpendicular to the wire the current's flowing through.

>>7945856
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