
Define magnetic dipole moment of a bar magnet.

Important Points to Remember in Chapter -1 - Magnetism and Magnetic Effects of Electric Current from Tamil Nadu Board Physics Standard 12 Vol I Solutions
1. The bar magnet:
(i) It has been known since ancient times that magnet tend to point in the north-south direction.
(ii) There are two poles; north pole and south pole. Like magnetic poles repel and unlike ones attract.
(iii) Magnetic monopoles do not exist. If you slice a magnet in half, you get two smaller magnets.
2. Bar magnetic in external field:
(i) When a bar magnet of dipole moment is placed in a uniform magnetic field , the force on it is zero.
(ii) The torque on it is
(iii) its potential energy is , where we choose the zero of energy at the orientation when is perpendicular to .
3. Field due to a small bar magnet:
Consider a bar magnet of size and magnetic moment , at a distance from its mid-point, where , the magnetic field due to this bar is, (along axis) and (along equator)
4. Gauss' law for magnetism:
Gauss’s law for magnetism states that the net magnetic flux through any closed surface is zero.
5. Earth's magnetism:
(i) The earth’s magnetic field resembles that of a (hypothetical) magnetic dipole located at the centre of the earth. The pole near the geographic north pole of the earth is called the north magnetic pole. Similarly, the pole near the geographic south pole is called the south magnetic pole.
(ii) Three quantities are needed to specify the magnetic field of the earth on its surface– the horizontal component, the magnetic declination, and the magnetic dip. These are known as the elements of the earth’s magnetic field.
(iii) A vertical plane passing through geographic axis is called geographic meridian.
(iv) A vertical plane passing through magnetic axis is called magnetic meridian.
(v) The angle between magnetic meridian at a point with the geographical meridian is called the declination or magnetic declination.
6. Magnetization and Magnetic Intensity:
(i) Consider a material placed in an external magnetic field . The magnetic intensity is defined as,
(ii) The magnetisation of the material is its dipole moment per unit volume.
(iii) The magnetic field in the material is,
(iv) For a linear material, . So that and is called the magnetic susceptibility of the material.
(v) The three quantities , the relative magnetic permeability and the magnetic permeability are related as follows: and
7. Magnetic Properties of Materials:
(i) Magnetic materials are broadly classified as: diamagnetic, paramagnetic, and ferromagnetic. For diamagnetic materials is negative and small and for paramagnetic materials it is positive and small. Ferromagnetic materials have large .
(ii) Diamagnetic substances are those which have tendency to move from stronger to the weaker part of the external magnetic field.
(iii) Paramagnetic substances are those which have tendency to move from a region of weak magnetic field to strong magnetic field.
(iv) Ferromagnetic substances are those which gets strongly magnetised when placed in an external magnetic field. They have strong tendency to move from a region of weak magnetic field to strong magnetic field.
8. Curie temperature:
(i) The temperature of transition from ferromagnetic to paramagnetism is called the Curie temperature.
(ii) Substances which at room temperature retain their ferromagnetic property for a long period of time are called permanent magnets.
9. Hysteresis:
For a given value of is not unique but depends on previous history of the sample. This phenomenon is called hysteresis.
10. Lorentz force:
(i) The force acting on a moving charge in a magnetic field is called as Lorenz force, and it is given by, where is the charge, is the velocity of the charge and is the magnetic field. This force is always perpendicular to the velocity of the charge, so the work done by this force on the charge is zero.
(ii) A current carrying element contains moving charges, so there will be Lorenz force on it which is given as, , where is the current, is its length and is the magnetic field.
(iii) A charge moving in a plane perpendicular to the magnetic field will perform circular motion with a radius of , where is the mass of the particle, is speed, is the charge and is the magnetic field. The angular frequency of rotation is given by where is the frequency.
(iv) Along with the perpendicular component, when the charge has a component of velocity parallel to the magnetic field, it will perform helical motion with a pitch given by, , where is the component of velocity parallel to the field and is the time period of rotation.2.
11. Biot-savart law:
(i) The magnetic field produced by a current carrying element is given by the Biot-Savart law according to which, , where I is the current in the element.
(ii) The magnetic field produced by a current carrying loop along its axis is given by, where is the current in it, is the radius of it and is the distance of the point from the centre of the loop along its axis. At the centre of the loop, the field becomes, .
12. Ampere's circuital law:
(i) According to Ampere’s circuital law, the line integral of the field in an imaginary closed loop is given by, , where is the current flowing through the loop.
(ii) From Ampere’s circuital law, the field around a current carrying element is given by the equation, where is the current in the wire and is the perpendicular distance of the point from the wire.
(iii) Field in a Solenoid is given by the equation, , where is the number of turns per unit length and is the current in the solenoid.
(iv) Field in a Toroid is given by the equation, , where is the total number of loops, is the current in the toroid and is its radius.
13. Force between the parallel wires:
When two parallel wires are brought close to each other, they both start attracting each other if they carry in the same direction or repel each other if the current is in the opposite direction. The equation for the force between them per unit length is given by, where and are the currents in them and is the distance between them.
14. Current loop as magnetic dipole:
(i) The dipole moment of a current carrying loop is given by, , where is the number of turns in the loop, is the current in it and is the area of the loop.
(ii) The torque acting on a current carrying loop placed in a uniform magnetic field is given by the equation, , where is the dipole moment of the loop and is the magnetic field. It can also be written as, , where is the area of the loop and is the angle between the area and the field.