ENGLISH FOR PHYSICS I

ASSIGMENT 3

By:

DODIK SETIAWAN
PHYSIC EDUCATION / B
2012

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

PHYSIC EDUCATION
SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY
2013
Assignment 3
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs given: to-infinitive or
gerund or present participle. State each case of a gerund that is used.
1. You can use your knowledge of how charged particles and electric currents are

affected by fields to interpret diagrams of moving particles.

2. You can use such an arrangement observing the effect of changing the strength and
direction of the field, and the effect of reversing the field. Note that you can seriously
damage a television set
by bringing a magnet close to the screen.
3. You can make a field in two ways: using a permanent magnet, or using an electric current.
There is really no fundamental difference between these two ways of creating magnetic
fields. You should be familiar with the magnetic field patterns of bar magnets. These can
be shown up using iron bar fillings or ploting compass. We representmagnetic fields, like
gravitational and electric fields, by drawing lines of force.
4. In a solenoid, reversing the current reverses the direction of the field.
5. Here are some useful rules for remembering the direction of the magnetic field produced
by a current:
The right - hand grip rule gives direction of field lines in an electromagnet.
Imagine gripping the coil, so that your fingers go around it following the direction of the
current.Your thumb now points in the direction of the field lines inside the coil, i.e. points
towards the electromagnets north pole.
The corkscrew rule is a way of remembering the direction of the field lines around a current
- carrying wire. Imagine pushing a corkscrew into a cork, and turning it. The direction in
which you push is the direction of the current, and the field lines go round the direction in
which you are turning the corkscrew.
6. The magnet creates a fairly uniform magnetic field. The rod has a current flowing
through it. As soon as the current is switched on, the rod start rolling, showing that a force is
acting on it. We use Flemings left-hand rule to predict the direction of the force. There are
three things here, all of which are mutually at right-angles to each other the magnetic
field, the current in the rod and the force on the rod. These can be represented by holding the
thumb and first two fingers of your left hand so that they are mutually at right-angles. Your
fingers then represent: thumb-Motion; First finger- Field; seCond finger-Current. You should
practice using your left hand to check that the rule correctly predicts these directions.
7. Scientists have put considerable effort into researching for particles that have just one
magnetic pole (magnetic monopoles).
8. We can generate electricity by spining a coil in a magnetic field. This is equivalent to use
an electric motor backwards.

9. Another use of electromagnetic induction is in transformers. An alternating current in the

primary coil produces varying magnetic field in the core. The secondary coil is also wound
round this core, so the flux linking the secondary coil is constantly changing. Hence a
varying e.m.f. is induced across the secondary.
10.Amperes finding revealed that when a charged particle crosses magnetic lines, it gets
pushed to one side.
11. The tendency of a compass needle to dip is a nuisance for compass users. To eliminate
this motion in a compass made for use in North America, the needle is suspended off center,
or even counterweighted on the southern end, so that it moves only in the horizontal plane of
the compass.
12. Electromagnets are the working parts of some of the instruments used to measure
currents and voltages.
13. In 1681, an English ship sailing to Boston was struck by lighting. After the storm had
passed, the sailors noticed that the ships compass no longer pointed north. Somehow, the
lighting had reserved the magnetic poles. Nevertheless, using the wrong end of the compass
for orientation, they came safely into Boston Harbor.
14. A person moves by pushing off from the Earth; a boat sails because the rowers push
against the water with their oars; Thus, pushing off from a support seems to be a necessary
condition for motion; even an airplane moves by pushing the air with its propeller. But is it
really? Might there not be some intricate means of moving without pushing off from
anything.
15. If you rub a strip of plastic so that it becomes charged, and then hold it close to your
hair, you feel your hair pulling upwards.