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Important Questions on Electromagnetic Induction

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A conducting loop in the shape of right angled isosceles triangle of height 10 cm is kept such that the 90o vertex is very close to an infinitely long conducting wire (see the figure). The wire is electrically insulated from the loop. The hypotenuse of the triangle is parallel to the wire. The current in the triangular loop is in counterclockwise direction and increased at constant rate of 10 A s-1. Which of the following statement(s) is (are) true?
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A 800 turn coil of the effective area 0.05  m2 is kept perpendicular to the magnetic field 5×10-5  T. When the plane of the coil is rotated by 90o around any of its coplanar axis in 0.1 s, the emf induced in the coil will be:
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The figure shows a square loop L of side 5 cm which is connected to a network of resistances. The whole setup is moving towards the right with a constant speed of 1 cm s-1 . At some instant, a part of L is in a uniform magnetic field of 1T perpendicular to the plane of the loop. If the resistance of L is 1.7 Ω, the current in the loop at that instant will be close to:
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The magnetic flux through a coil varies with time as ϕ=5t2+6t+9. The ratio of emf at t=3 s to t=0 s will be
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A solid metal cube of edge length 2 cm is moving in the positive y-direction, at a constant speed of 6 m s-1. There is a uniform magnetic field of 0.1 T in the positive z-direction. The potential difference between the two faces of the cube, perpendicular to the x-axis, is
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A conducting circular loop is placed in a uniform magnetic field, B=0.025 T with its plane perpendicular to the loop. The radius of the loop is made to shrink at a constant rate of 1 mm s-1. The induced emf when the radius is 2 cm, is
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A thin strip 10 cm long is on a U shaped wire of negligible resistance and it is connected to a spring of spring constant 0.5 N m-1 (see figure). The assembly is kept in a uniform magnetic field of 0.1 T. If the strip is pulled from its equilibrium position and released, the number of oscillations it performs before its amplitude decreases by a factor of e is N . If the mass of the strip is 50 grams, its resistance 10Ω and air drag negligible, N will be close to:
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A metal disc of radius a=10 cm rotates with a constant angular speed of ω=200 rad s-1 about its axis. The potential difference between the centre and the rim of the disc under a uniform magnetic field B=5 m T directed perpendicular to the disc, is
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A coil of cross-sectional area A having n turns is placed in a uniform magnetic field B. When it is rotated with an angular velocity ω, the maximum e.m.f. induced in the coil will be:
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Consider a thin metallic sheet perpendicular to the plane of the paper moving with speed v in a uniform magnetic field B going into the plane of the paper (see figure). If charge densities σ1 and σ2 are induced on the left and right surfaces respectively of the sheet, then (ignore fringe effects)

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The figure shows a circular area of tthe radius R where a uniform magnetic field B is going into the plane of the paper and increasing in magnitude at a constant rate. In that case, which of the following graphs, drawn schematically, correctly shows the variation of the induced electric field E(r)?

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The figure shows the cross section of a cylindrical region of radius R in which the magnetic field points into the page. The magnitude of the field is 1 T at time t=0 and it decreases to zero in 20 seconds.

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The induced electric field at a distance r from the centre O inside the cylindrical region is given by

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A rod of length 2 m slides with a speed of 5 m s-1 on a rectangular conducting frame as shown in figure. There exists a uniform magnetic field of 0.04 T perpendicular to the plane of the figure. If the resistance of the rod is 3 Ω. The current through the rod is

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A light disc made of aluminium (a nonmagnetic material) is kept horizontally and is free to rotate about its axis as shown in the figure. A strong magnet is held vertically at a point above the disc away from its axis. On revolving the magnet about the axis of the disc, the disc will (figure is schematic and not drawn to scale)

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Two straight conducting rails form a right angle as shown below. A conducting bar in contact with the rails starts at the vertex at time t=0 and moves with constant velocity of v=5 m s-1 along them. A magnetic field with B=0.1 T is directed out of the page. The absolute value of the emf around the triangle at the time t=4 s will be?
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A conducting square loop is placed in a magnetic field B with its plane perpendicular to the field. The sides of the loop start shrinking at a constant rate α. The induced emf in the loop at an instant when its side is a is
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A wire loop enclosing a semi-circle of radius R is located on the boundary of a uniform magnetic field of induction B. At time t=0, the loop is set into rotation with velocity ω? about its axis 0, coinciding with a line of vector B on the boundary as shown in the figure. The emf induced in the loop is

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A fighter plane of length 20 m, wing span (distance from tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing) of 15 m and height 5 m is flying towards east over Delhi. Its speed is 240 ms-1. The earth's magnetic field over Delhi is 5×10-5T with the declination angle ~0o and dip of θ such that sinθ=23. If the voltage developed is VB between the lower and upper side of the plane and VW between the tips of the wings then VB and VW are close to :
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A 10 m long horizontal wire extends from North East to South West. It is falling with a speed of 5.0 m s-1, at right angles to the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field of 0.3×10-4 Wb m-2. The value of the induced emf in the wire is:
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The circular wire in figure below encircles solenoid in which the magnetic flux is increasing at a constant rate out of the plane of the page.

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The clockwise emf around the circular loop is ε0. By definition a voltammeter measures the voltage difference between the two points given
by Vb-Va=-abE·ds. We assume that a and bare infinitesimally close to each other. The values of Vb-Va along the path 1 and Va-Vb along the path 2, respectively are