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Find out magnetic field at point O for the following current distributions.

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Important Questions on Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

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Two very long, straight, and insulated wires are kept at 90° angle from each other in xy plane as shown in the figure.
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These wires carry currents of equal magnitude I , whose direction are shown in the figure. The net magnetic field at point P will be:

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Two identical wires A and B, each of length l, carry the same current I . Wire A is bent into a circle of radius R and wire B is bent to form a square of side a. If BA and BB are the values of magnetic field at the centres of the circle and square respectively, then the ratio BABB is
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A cylindrical conductor of radius R is carrying a constant current. The plot of the magnitude of the magnetic field B with the distance d from the centre of the conductor is correctly represented by the figure.
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Two identical long conducting wires AOB and COD are placed at right angle to each other, with one above other such that ‘ O ’ is their common point for the two. The wires carry I1 and I2 currents, respectively. Point ‘ I ’ is lying at distance ‘ d ’ from ‘ O ’ along a direction perpendicular to the plane containing the wires. The magnetic field at the point ‘ P ’ will be:
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An electron moving in a circular orbit of radius r makes n rotations per second. The magnetic field produced at the center has magnitude:
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A thin ring of 10 cm radius carries a uniformly distributed charge. The ring rotates at a constant angular speed of 40π rad s-1 about its axis, perpendicular to its plane. Is the magnetic field its centre is 3.8×10-9 T , then the charge carried by the ring is close to μ0=4π×10-7 N A-2.
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A symmetric star shaped conducting wire loop is carrying a steady state current I as shown in the figure. The distance between the diametrically opposite vertices of the star is 4a. The magnitude of the magnetic field at the center of the loop is___

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Magnitude of magnetic field (in SI units) at the centre of a hexagonal shape coil of side 10 cm,50 turns and carrying currentI  (Ampere) in units of μ0Iπ is :
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A long wire carrying a steady current is bent into a circular loop of one turn. The magnetic field at the centre of the loop is B. It is then bent into a circular coil of n turns. The magnetic field at the centre of this coil of n turns will be
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The magnetic induction at a point P which is at a distance of 4 cm from a long current carrying wire is 10-3 T . The field of induction at a distance 12 cm from the current will be
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A long, straight Wire of radius a carries a current distributed uniformly over its cross-section. The ratio of the magnetic fields due to the wire at distance a3 and 2a , respectively from the axis of the wire is:
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One of the two identical conducting wires of length L is bent in the form of a circular loop and the other one into a circular coil of N identical turns. If the same current is passed in both, the ratio of the magnetic field at the centre of the loop BL to that at the centre of the coil BC, i.e. BLBC will be
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A small circular loop of conducting wire has radius a and carries current I. It is placed in a uniform magnetic field B perpendicular to its plane such that when rotated slightly about its diameter and released, it starts performing simple harmonic motion of time period T. The mass of the loop is m then:
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Find the magnetic field at point P due to a straight line segment AB of length 6 cm carrying a current of 5 A. (See figure) μ0=4π×10-7 NA-2

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A wire A, bent in the shape of an arc of a circle, carrying a current of 2 A and having radius 2 cm and another wire B, also bent in the shape of an arc of a circle, carrying a current of 3 A and having radius of 4 cm, are placed as shown in the figure. The ratio of the magnetic fields due to the wires A and B at the common centre O is:

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A charged particle going around in a circle can be considered to be a current loop. A particle of a mass m carrying charge q is moving in a plane with speed v under the influence of magnetic field B. The magnetic moment of this moving particle is :
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A small current element of length dl and carrying current is placed at (1, 1, 0) and is carrying current in '+ z' direction. If magnetic field at origin be B1 and at point (2, 2, 0) be B2 then:
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A wire carrying current I has the shape as shown in adjoining figure. Linear parts of the wire are very long and parallel to X -axis while semicircular portion of radius R is lying in Y - Z plane. Magnetic field at point O is :

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As shown in the figure, two infinitely long, identical wires are bent by 90o and placed in such a way that the segments LP and QM are along the x - axis, while segments PS and QN are parallel to the y - axis. If OP=OQ=4cm, and the magnitude of the magnetic field at O is 10-4 T, and the two wires carry equal currents (see figure), the magnitude of the current in each wire and the direction of the magnetic field at O will be μ0=4π×10-7NA-2:

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