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Two bar magnets are bound together side by side and suspended, so as to swing in the horizontal plane. The combination makes one oscillation is 125, when like poles are together and 16 seconds when the direction one of the magnet is reversed. Compare their magnetic moments.

Important Questions on Properties of Magnets and Terrestrial Magnetism

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A compass needle makes 30 oscillations per minute in the earth's field. When a bar magnet is placed near it so as not to alter the direction of the needle, it makes 40 oscillations in one minute. How many times will the needle oscillate per minute if the magnet is reversed ?
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At a place, where the true dip is 45°, the apparent dip is 60°. In a plane perpendicular to the previous plane, what would be the apparent dip ?
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At a place, the horizontal component of earth's magnetic field is 0.4212×10-4 T, dip is 70° and declination is 15°. What will be the horizontal and vertical components of earth's magnetic field in the geographical meridian there ?
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Earth's magnetic field may be imagined to be due to a small bar magnet located at the centre of the earth. If the magnetic field at a point on the magnetic equator is 0.3×10-4 T, what is the moment of such a bar magnet? What is the value of the magnetic field at the north pole? (radius of the earth=6.4×106 m)

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A magnetic needle of mass 8 gm has a magnetic moment of 0.049Am2. If the needle is to be maintained horizontal in the northern hemisphere, where should the point of support lie relative to its centre of gravity? The vertical component of earth's magnetic field is 0.2×10-4 T.
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ABCD is a table of sides 50 cm each and C is towards magnetic north of A. At the corners B and D two identical short bar magnets are placed with their $S$ -pole towards C. Magnetic field at C is zero. Find the magnetic moment of each magnet. Given : horizontal component of earth's magnetic field is 0.4×10-4 T.
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A magnet is suspended horizontally in the magnetic meridian from its cg. By fine untwisted wire. When the upper end of the wire is twisted through 50°, the magnet is deflected by 5°. Find the angle through which the upper end must be twisted in order that the magnet gets deflected by 10°
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Find the magnetic moment of the magnet if the earth's horizontal magnetic field is 20μT.

The needle of a deflection magnetometer deflects through 45° from north-south when the instrument is used in Tan-A position with a magnet of length 8 cm placed at a distance of 20 cm