Magnetic Field Due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart Law

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Magnetic Field Due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart Law: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Biot-Savart Law, Permeability of Free Space, Permeability of a Medium, Direction of Magnetic Field Using Right Hand Thumb Rule, Current Element, Comparison between Biot-Savart Law and Coulomb's Law, etc.

Important Questions on Magnetic Field Due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart Law

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Three infinitely long thin wires each carrying current i in the same direction, are in the x-y plane a gravity-free space. The central wire is along the y-axis while the other two are along x=∓d Find the locus of the points for which the magnetic field B is zero.

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Find the magnetic induction at point O, if the current carrying wire is in the shape shown in the figure.

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Find the magnetic induction at the origin in the figure shown.

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A system of long four parallel conductors whose sections with the plane of the drawing lie at the vertices of a square there flow four equal currents. The directions of these currents are as follows : those marked point away from the reader, while those marked with a dot point towards the reader. How is the vector of magnetic induction directed at the centre of the square ?

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A long straight wire carries a current of 10 A directed along the negative y-axis as shown in the figure. A uniform magnetic field B0 of magnitude 10-6 T is directed parallel to the x-axis. What is the resultant magnetic field at the following point x=2 m, z=0?
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What is a current element ? Derive an expression for the magnetic filed due to a current element.

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Magnetic field at a distance r from an infinitely long straight conductor carrying a steady current varies as

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The magnetic field due to a current element is independent of _____ (nature of material/ current through it/ length of material).
 

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The magnetic permeability is defined as the ratio of Magnetic induction and magnetising field

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What is difference between permeability and permittivity of medium?

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Both Biot-savarts law and Coulomb's law works on the principle of Superposition.

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Write any two differences between Coulomb's law for the electrostatic field and Biot-Savart's for the magnetic Field.

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How is the speed of light related to the permittivity and permeability of free space?

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Which of the following equations correctly represents the relationship between permeability and permittivity of free space?

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What is the relation between permeability and permittivity of free space?

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Which law is similar to the Biot-Savart's law of magnetism?

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A magnetic intensity of 1500 A m-1 produces a flux of 2.4×10-5 Wb in a iron bar of cross sectional area 0.5 cm2. The permeability of the iron bar is

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If magnetic field at point P is 10-4 Tesla. Determine current i ?

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The direction of magnetic field dB due to current element dl at a distance r is the direction of