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Magnetic dipole moment equal to the amount of current flowing through the loop multiplied by the area encompassed by the loop.

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Important Questions on Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

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A hoop and a solid cylinder of same mass and radius are made of a permanent magnetic material with their respective axes. But the magnetic moment of hoop is twice of solid cylinder. They are placed in a uniform magnetic field in such a manner that their magnetic moments make a small angle with the field. If the oscillation periods of hoop and cylinder are Th and Tc respectively, then:
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Torque acting on a rectangular coil carrying current i situated parallel to magnetic field of induction B, having the number of turns n and area A is
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A small bar magnet is placed with its axis at 30o with an external magnetic field of 0.06 T experiences a torque of 0.018 Nm. The minimum work required to rotate it from its stable to unstable equilibrium position is:
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A thin rod of length L is magnetized and has magnetic moment M. The rod is then bent in a semicircular arc. The magnetic moment in the new shape is
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Two identical bar magnets are held perpendicular to each other with a certain separation, as shown below. The area around the magnets is divided into four zones.
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Given that there is a neutral point it is located in,
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A wire of length L metre carrying a current of I ampere is bent in the form of a circle. Its magnetic moment is,
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The magnetic dipole moment of a short magnetic dipole at a distant point along the equator of magnet has a magnitude of X in SI units. If the distance between point and the magnet is halved then the magnitude of dipole moment will be
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A bar magnet of length 14 cm is placed in the magnetic meridian with its north pole pointing towards the geographic north pole. A neutral point is obtained at a distance of 18 cm from the center of the magnet. If BH=0.4 G, the magnetic moment of the magnet is 1 G=10-4 T
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A circular coil having N turns and radius r carries a current I. It is held in the XZ plane in a magnetic field Bi^ . The torque on the coil due to the magnetic field is:
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A square loop is carrying a steady current I  and the magnitude of its magnetic dipole moment is  m . If this square loop is changed to a circular loop and it carries the same current, the magnitude of the magnetic dipole moment of circular loop will be:
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In a permanent magnet at room temperature
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Two short bar magnets of length 1cm each have magnetic moments 1.20 A m2 and 1.00 A m2 respectively. They are placed on a horizontal table parallel to each other with their N poles pointing towards the south. They have a common magnetic equator and are separated by a distance of 20.0 cm. The value of the resultant horizontal magnetic induction at the mid-point O of the line joining their centres is close to
( Horizontal component of earth's magnetic induction is 3.6×10-5  Wb m-2 )
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The ratio of the magnetic field at the centre of a current-carrying circular coil to magnetic moment is x. If the current and the radius both are doubled. The new ratio will become

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An iron rod of volume 10-3 m3 and relative permeability 1000 is placed as core in a solenoid with10 turns cm-1 . If a current of 0.5 A is passed through the solenoid, then the magnetic moment of the rod will be :
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Two short bar magnets of moments 512 A m2 and 1000 A m2 are placed coaxially 18 cm apart. The magnetic field is zero at a point Q between them. The field at Q, when one of the magnets is reversed pole to pole is
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A long magnetic needle of length 2l magnetic moment M and pole strength m is broken into two pieces at the middle. The magnetic moment and pole strength of each piece will be
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A large magnet is broken into two pieces so that their lengths are in the ratio 1:2. The ratio of their magnetic moments is 
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Following figures show the arrangement of bar magnets in different configurations. Each magnet has magnetic dipole m. Which configuration has highest net magnetic dipole moment?
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The magnetic flux near the axis and inside the air-core solenoid of length 60 cm carrying current I is 1.57×106 Wb. Its magnetic moment will be (cross-sectional area of a solenoid is very small as compared to its length, μ0=4π×10-7 SI units)
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An insulating thin rod of length l has a linear charge density ρx=ρ0xl on it. The rod is rotated about an axis passing through the origin x=0 and perpendicular to the rod. If the rod makes n rotations per second, then the time averaged magnetic moment of the rod is: