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What is the difference between a current-carrying coil and a solenoid?
The difference is the current.Meow12 said:What is the difference between a current-carrying coil and a solenoid?
Assume that the same current I passes through the coil and the solenoid. Honestly, that picture in the Wikipedia article looks like a coil to me. It seems that both a coil and a solenoid have N turns of a current-carrying wire with radius r, and I don't see the difference.Baluncore said:The difference is the current.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid
Then the only difference is the shape of the coil.Meow12 said:Assume that the same current I passes through the coil and the solenoid.