Biot-Savart Law

Author:S L Arora
12th CBSE
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Important Questions on Biot-Savart Law

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What is the importance of a radial magnetic field and how is it produced?

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Explain how Biot-Savart law enables one to express the Ampere's circuital law in the integral form, viz., B.dl=μ0I, where I is the total current passing through the surface.

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Write, using Biot-Savart law, the expression for the magnetic field element dl carrying current I at a distance r from it in a vector form.

Hence derive the expression for the magnetic field due to a current-carrying loop of radius R at a point P  distant x from its centre along the axis of the loop.

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Use Biot-Savart law to derive the expression for the magnetic field due to a circular coil of radius R having N turns at a point on the axis at a distance 'x' from its centre. How is the direction of the magnetic field determined at this point? Draw the magnetic field lines due to this coil.

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State Biot-Savart law expressing it in vector form. Use it to obtain the magnetic field, at an axial point, distant r from the centre of a circular coil of radius a carrying a current I. Hence, compare the magnitudes of the magnetic field of this coil at the centre and at an axial point for which r=3a.

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Use Biot-Savart's law to find the expression for the magnetic field due to a circular loop of radius 'r' carrying current 'I', at its centre.

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Write any two important points of similarities and differences each between Coulomb's law for the electrostatic field and Biot-Savart's law for the magnetic field.

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Show that the kinetic energy of the particle moving in a magnetic field remains constant.

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Using Biot-Savart law, obtain the expression for the magnetic field due to a circular coil of radius r, carrying a current I at a point on its axis distant x from the centre of the coil.

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State Biot-Savart law and express it in the vector form.

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Using Biot-Savart's law, derive the expression for the magnitude of the magnetic field at the centre of a circular loop of radius r carrying a steady current I. Draw the field lines due to the current loop.

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A wire of length L is bent into a semi-circular loop. Use Biot-Savart law to deduce an expression for the magnetic field at the centre due to current I passing through it.

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State Biot-Savart's law in vector form expressing the magnetic field due to an element dl carrying current I at a distance r from the element. How will you find the direction of the magnetic field?

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A square coil, OPQR, of side a, carrying a current I, is placed in the Y-Z plane as shown in figure. Find the magnetic moment associated with this coil.

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What is the nature of the magnetic field associated with the current in a straight conductor?

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Show the magnetic lines of force around a straight current carrying conductor.

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Write an expression for the magnetic field produced by an infinitely long straight wire carrying a current I at a short distance a from itself.

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State the rule that is used to find the direction of magnetic field acting at a point near a current carrying straight conductor.