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Homework Statement
This isn't a homework problem with variables and numbers; it is a concept question:
An airplane is flying west in level flight over Massachusetts, where the Earth’s magnetic field is directed downward below the horizontal in a northerly direction. As a result of the magnetic force on the free electrons in its wings, one of the wingtips will have more electrons than the other. Which one (north or south wing) is it? Will the answer be different if the plane is flying east?
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I'm not sure if this is just a common sense question, where the north wing would have more electrons than the south wing due to the Earth's magnetic field? And if that what the case, would it not be different if the plane flew east?