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Ep. 635: Jets: When Magnetic Fields Fling Things

Astronomy Cast

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What Are the Magnetic Fields and Pints?

The bulk of the time, it is extremely complex physics where we don't entirely know the answer. And this is why in introductory text books and magazin articles, all that complicated physics gets hidden behind the phrase magnetic fields andpints. The truth is there are magnetic fields that are involved. Moving charged objects going in a circle create basically electromagnetic fields like a battery and some wire can do.

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