Question

In the simple electric motor of figure gives below, the coil rotates anticlockwise as seen by the eye from the position X when current flows in the coil.

Is the current flowing clockwise or anticlockwise around the coil when viewed from above ?

Answer 1

Clockwise Direction by using Left hand rule.

Left hand rule states :
When current flows through a conducting wire, and an external magnetic field is applied across that flow, the conducting wire experiences a force perpendicular both to that field and to the direction of the current flow (i.e they are mutually perpendicular) . A left hand can be held, as shown in the illustration, so as to represent three mutually orthogonal axes on the thumb, fore finger and middle finger.