Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Lorii on Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 8:53pm.

Two long, straight, parallel wires carry current in the same direction. If the wires are 24 cm apart and carry currents of 2.0 A and 4.0 A, respectively, find the force per unit length on each wire?

I'm not really sure how to go about this. I must be spacing or something.

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