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A wire has compasses placed around it and a current is passed through the wire. What happens to the compasses

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If you hold a compass near a wire through which current is flowing, the needle on the compass will be deflected. Since compasses work by pointing along magnetic field lines, this means that there must be a magnetic field near the wire through which the current is flowing

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