
A current carrying rectangular loop PQRS is made of uniform wire. The length PR=QS=5 cm and PQ=RS=100 cm. If ammeter current reading changes from I to 2I, the ratio of magnetic forces per unit length on the wire PQ due to wire RS in the two cases respectively



Important Questions on Magnetic Fields due to Electric Current
Two parallel very long straight wires carrying current of each are kept at a separation of If the currents are in the same direction, the force per unit length between them is _____

Two long straight parallel wires, carrying (adjustable) currents and , are kept at a distance apart. If the force between the two wires is taken as 'positive' when the wires repel each other and 'negative' when the wires attract each other, the graph showing the dependence of , on the product , would be:

Two long conductors, separated by a distance carry currents and in the same direction. They exert a force on each other. Now the current in one of them is increased to two times and its direction is reversed. The distance is also increased to . The new value of force between them is






Write an expression for force per unit length between two long current-carrying wires, kept parallel to each other, in a vacuum and hence define an ampere, the SI unit of current.




Consider two straight parallel conductors and separated by a distance and carrying individual currents respectively. If the two conductors attract each other, it indicates that

A long horizontal wire P carries a current of . It is rigidly fixed. Another wire Q is placed directly above and parallel to P as shown in Figure 1 below. The weight per unit length of the wire Q is and it carries a current of . Find the distance r of the wire Q from the wire P so that the wire Q remains at rest.


Calculate force per unit length acting on the wire B due to the current flowing in the wire A. (See figure 2 below):




A rigid square loop of side and carrying current is lying on a horizontal surface near a long current carrying wire in the same plane as shown in figure. The net force on the loop due to the wire will be:

An arrangement of three parallel straight wires placed perpendicular to plane of paper carrying same current along the same direction is shown in Figure. Magnitude of force per unit length on the middle wire is given by

