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Which of the following statements about magnetic materials is NOT TRUE?
(a)Materials which have low retentivity are suitable for making soft magnets
(b)Paramagnetic materials have relative permeabilities slightly greater than unity
(c)Permanent magnets are made from materials with high retentivity and high permeability but with low coercivity
(d)A diamagnetic material is repelled by a magnetic field

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Important Questions on Magnetic Materials
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Magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is

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The magnetic susceptibility is negative for:

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The magnetization of bar magnet of length , cross-sectional area and net magnetic moment is

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Which one of the following characteristics is not associated with a paramagnetic material?

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Consider the regular array of vertical identical current-carrying wires (with the direction of current flow as indicated in the figure below) protruding through a horizontal table. If we scatter some diamagnetic particles on the table, they are likely to accumulate-

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Coercivity of a magnet where the ferromagnet gets completely demagnetized is . The minimum current required to be passed in a solenoid having turns per metre, so that the magnet gets completely demagnetized when placed inside the solenoid is

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A domain in ferromagnetic iron in the form of cube is having atoms. If the side length of this domain is and each atom has a dipole moment of , then magnetisation of domain is

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An iron rod of susceptibility is subjected to a magnetising field of . The permeability of the material of the rod is:

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An example of a perfect diamagnet is a superconductor. This implies that when a superconductor is put in a magnetic field of intensity , the magnetic field inside the superconductor will be such that

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Nickel combines with a uninegative monodentate ligand to form a diamagnetic complex The hybridisation involved and the number of unpaired electrons present in the complex are respectively:

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Magnetic materials used for making permanent magnets and magnets in a transformer have different properties of the following, which property best matches for the type of magnet required?

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A long solenoid has the radius and turns. It carries a current of . If it is equivalent to a magnet of the same size and magnetization then is:

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A perfectly diamagnetic sphere has a small spherical cavity at its centre, which is filled with a paramagnetic substance. The whole system is placed in a uniform magnetic field . Then the field inside the paramagnetic substance is:

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The figure gives experimentally measured vs. variation in a ferromagnetic material. The retentivity, coercivity and saturation, respectively, of the material are:

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A paramagnetic sample shows a net magnetisation of when it is placed in an external magnetic field of at a temperature of . When the sample is placed in an external magnetic field of at a temperature of , then the magnetisation will be :

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The meniscus of a liquid contained in one of the limbs of a narrow U -tube is placed between the poles of an electromagnet with the meniscus in a line with the field. The liquid is seen to rise to the line. This indicate that the liquid is ___ .

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A paramagnetic sample shows a net magnetization of when placed in an external magnetic field of at a temperature of . When the same sample is placed in an external magnetic field of at a temperature of . The magnetization will be

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Hysteresis loops for two magnetic materials and are given below:

These materials are used to make magnets for electric generators, transformer core and electromagnet core. Then it is proper to use:

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The coercivity of a small magnet, where the ferromagnet gets demagnetised is . The current required to be passed in a solenoid of length and number of turns , so that the magnet gets demagnetised when inside the solenoid is

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A paramagnetic material has . Its magnetic susceptibility at temperature is . Its susceptibility at is

