I know it’s kind of a stupid question, but I have been thinking this for a while. Do magnets affect the electricity itself that flows inside a wire? For example, say I am charging my phone and it’s connected to a wall socket. If I placed a magnet in the middle of my charger wire (like literally on top of the wire) would the magnet stop the electricity from flowing since it’s getting attracted to the magnet? Would it have any effect at all on the flow of electrons inside the wire?
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This will have no practical impact on a conductor like in yor example.
Magnetism does not attract electricity.
Stationary magnetic field causes moving charges (electrons in our case) to experience sideways force.
Magnetism will bend the path that the electrons go. This is [Hall effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect).
Basically a voltage difference forms between the sides of the conductor.
Here is simplified animation of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hall_Sensor.webm (the gauge at the top is measuring the voltage between different parts of the conductor)
This can be used to make sensors.
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