
A compass needle free to turn in a horizontal plane is placed at the centre of a circular coil of turns and radius . The coil is in a vertical plane making an angle of with the magnetic meridian. When the current in the coil is , the needle points west to east.
The current in the coil is reversed and the coil is rotated about its vertical axis by an angle of in the anticlockwise sense looking from above. Predict the direction of the needle. Take the magnetic declination at the places to be zero.

Important Questions on Matter and Magnetism
A square loop of dimensions consists of closely wrapped turns. The loop is hinged along the -axis. A uniform magnetic field of is directed along the -axis.
How much current should flow in the loop so that the maximum torque exerted on the loop is


A bar magnet is oscillating in Earth's magnetic field with the time period . If a similar magnet with the same mass and dimensions has magnetic dipole moment times that of this magnet, then the periodic time will be______.












A short bar magnet is placed in the magnetic meridian of the earth with North Pole pointing north. Neutral points are found at a distance of from the magnet on the East-West line, drawn through the middle point of the magnet. The magnetic moment of the magnet in is close to:
(Given in SI units and Horizontal component of earth's magnetic field Tesla.)



The rectangular coil of area is in a field Find the torque about the -axis when the coil lies in the position shown and carries a current




