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What is meant by magnetic effect of electric current? Who discovered it?


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The concept used; Magnetic Effects of Current-Electromagnetism

The generation of a magnetic field around a conductor when direct. current (DC) is passed through it is called the magnetic effect of current. A Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted for the first time in 1819.

discovered that when an electric current is passed through any conductor, a magnetic field is produced around it.


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