Anyone here know electromagnetism really well?

[Peartree]

That kind of furnace works like the inductive stoves; I worked at a place that had a bunch of 60kW furnaces, all battery backed. Some days that place drew 4MW. I learned a lot. (I'm an analog/vacuum tube engineer.
I was amazed by several things: the cheap crucibles were platinum. and if you hear a suitcase sized tuning capacitor going tink-tink tink Tink. ... you run.

"Sort of" like inductive stove. And inductive stove heats the pan and the stuff in the pan in heated by the pan. An induction furnace has a non-conductive "pan" but heats the metal *in* the pan by inducing currents in them.

 

[cvanc]

Many thanks to the assembled brain trust for a fun and informative conversation! It's time for me to sum up what I've learned:

1) A thin round wire behaves as right hand rule dictates
2) A thick round wire also behaves as right hand rule dictates (and we assumed 'of any diameter')
3) A hollow wire - a cylinder - also behaves as right hand rule dictates (we didn't really talk diameter here, I assume it's also 'any')

...did I get it right? Is it that simple?

 

[jqavins]

Yup. Right hand rule rules.