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By exerting a magnetic field normal to a
current-carrying strip we cause a deviation in the path of moving
electrons as if our conducting path is a wire along an edge of the
strip which at a point is deflected normal to the edge and reaches
the other edge and afterwards is continued along this other edge
in the same direction as before. It is clear that connecting the
two end points of the transverse part of such a wire by a minor
wire we expect a part of the main current to pass through this
minor wire. The direction of such a current flowing in the minor
wire is such that as if the current-carrying charges in the main
current-carrying strip are positive charges. This is the basis of
this paper. A quite practical experiment is proposed for testing
the presented theory.
(8) Classical justification of the Hall effect (pdf)