The fundamental force that drives electric motors, generators, and older cathode ray tubes. It dictates that a charge experiences a force parallel to an electric field and perpendicular to both its velocity and a magnetic field. In power engineering, this physical principle explains how current-carrying conductors experience physical stress during massive short circuits, sometimes violently tearing busbars from their supports.
Heard on the job
The fault current was so high that the Lorentz force bent the copper busbars right out of their bracing.