THE INDIAN SCHOOL, KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
XII ASSINGMENT
Magnetic effect of current.
1. Discuss analogies and differences between coulumb’s law and
Biot-savart’s law.
2. Why do we not simply define the direction of the magnetic
induction induction B in which the magnetic force acts on a
moving charge?
3. What is ∫B ⋅ds for the path shown in the following fig.

1A 3A
4A
5A

2A

4. Is magnetic field uniform for all points within a circular loop of

wire carrying a current? Explain.
5. A current is sent through a vertical spring from whose lower end a
weight is hanging. What will happen?
6. Two long straight wires pass near one another at right angles. If the
wires are free to move, describe what happen when current are sent
through them both.
7. A messy loop of flexible wire is placed on a frictionless table and
anchored at point a & b as shown in the figure. If a current i flows
through it, will it try to form a circular loop or will it try to bunch
up further?

I a

I b
8. Can the path of integration around which we apply Amp’s law pass
through a conductor?
9. Two long straight parallel wires 12.2cm apart,
each carry a current of 115A. The figure shows
a cross section with the wires running perpendicular to the page
and point P lying on the perpendicular bisector of a. Find the
magnitude and direction of the magnetic field at P when the current in
the left hand wire is out of the page and the current in the right hand
wire is a) Out of the page b) Into the page.

9. Find the magnetic field at P midway between the

Coils.

10.A particle with charge Q and mass m in shot wit-

h kinetic energy K=1/2 mv2 into the region between two plate. If
the magnetic field between the plates is B as shown, how large
must B be if the particle is to miss collision with the opposite
plates. [ B= (2mk)1/2/ Qx]
11. Two straight long conductors AOB & COD are perpendicular to each
other and carry currents I1 & I2 respectively. Find the magnitude of
magnetic field at a point P at a distance ‘a’ from the point O in a direction
perpendicular to the plane ABCD.
[µo/4 π.2(I12 + I22)1/2 / a].

12. a) Why does a charged particle moving at right angle to the direction
of a magnetic field follow a circular path?

b) Two parallel wires carrying currents in same direction attract each

other, while two beams of electron travelling in the same direction repeal
each other. Explain why?

c) In what way electric and magnetic fields are different?

13. A current I Amp is flowing along the sides of an equilateral triangle.

Of sides 4.5 x 10-2m. Find the magnetic field at the centroid of the
triangle.

14. A length of wire carries a steady current. It is bent first to form a

circular plane coil of one turn. The same length is now bent more sharply
to give a double loop of smaller radius. When the same current passed,
find the ratio of the magnetic field at the centre which is first value.
(4 times)
15. Electric current I1 & I2 are flowing in two mutually perpendicular
conductors. Find the equation of locus of zero magnetic field points.
[ y = x (I1/ I2)]

16. A long straight wire carries a current of 2 A. An electron travels with

a velocity of 4 x 104m/s parallel to wire 0.1m from it, and in a direction
opposite to the current. What force does the magnetic field of current
exert on the moving electron? E=-1.6x10-19c
[2.56 x 10 -20 N towards the conductor]

17. A Galvanometer coil is replaced by another coil of diameter one-forth

of the original diameter and the total number of turns as ten times the
original number. What will be the new deflection if the same current is
passed through it. [5/8 times the original deflection]

18. A length L of a wire carries current ‘i’. Show that if the wire is
formed into a circular coil, the maximum torque has the value
[ T= L2iB/4π].

19. What is the value of shunt resistance in order to pass 10% of the main
current in the galvanometer of resistance 99Ω. [11Ω in series].

20. A Galvanometer has a sensitivity of 60 divs/Amp. When a shunt is

used, its sensitivity becomes 10 divs/Amp. What is the value of shunt
used if the resistance of Galvanometer is 20Ω? (4Ω)

21. Two similar coils of radius R and number of turns N are lying
concentrically with their planes at right angle to each other. The current
flowing in them are I & 2I respectively. What is the resultant magnetic
field at the centre would be?

22. Two identical coils each of radius ‘r’ and having n number of turns
are lying in perpendicular planes, such that they have common centre.
Find the magnetic field at the centre of the coils, if they carry currents
equal to I & √3 I respectively. [µonI/r]

23. A long wire is first bent into a circular coil of 1 turn & then into a
circular coil of smaller radius having n turns. If the same currents passes
in both the cases, find the ratio of the magnetic field produced at the
centre in the two cases. [B’=n2B]
24.An electric current is flowing in a circular wire of radius a. At what
distance from the centre on the axis of the circular wire will the magnetic
field be 1/8th of its value at the centre? [x=√3a]

25.A direct current i = 10 A flows in a long straight round conductor.

Find the magnetic flux through a half of the wire’s cross-section per one
meter of its length. ( 10-6Wb/m)

26. (a) A current is set up along a copper pipe. Is there any magnetic
field(1) in side and (2) out side the pipe?
(b) Can a magnetic field independent of time, change the velocity of a
charged particle?
(c) Prove that the percentage error in measuring the voltage across a
resistor r by a voltmeter of resistance R (current remaining unchanged) is
given by [ 1- R/(R+r)]
27. a) Give four different ways to produce a magnetic fields.
b) The net charge in a current carrying conductor is zero; even then it
experiences a force in magnetic fields, why?
c) An electron beam is moving south to north just above a magnetic
needle. What shall be the effect on the needle?
d) A charged particle does not do any work while moving in a
perpendicular magnetic fields- justify.
e) What is the value of a magnetic field on a thin current carrying
conductor?

28. An electron moves with the velocity v=ak^ in a magnetic fields of

induction B= biˆ+cjˆ. Find the magnetic force on the electron.
[F=ea(ciˆ-bjˆ)]

29. A charge Q is spread uniformly over an insulated ring of radius R.

What is the magnetic moment of the ring if it is rotated with an angular
velocity ‘ω’ with respect to normal axis? [M=1/2 QωR2 ]

30. Equal current I=1A are flowing through the long wire parallel to y-
axis located at x=+1m, x=+2m, x=+4m…and so on. What is magnetic
field at the origin O. [1.33x10-7Rˆ]
31. An electron at a point Ain the figure has a velocity v0 = 107m/s. Find
(a) the magnitude and direction of the magnetic induction that will cause
the electron to follow a semicircular path from A to B which are 10 cm
apart.(b) the time required for the electron to move from A to B.
B = 1.125 x 10-3 T. T = 3.14 x 10-8 s.

32.A particle of charge q and mass m moves in a circular orbit of radius

R with angular speed ω. Find the ratio of the magnitude of it’s magnetic
moment to that of it’s angular momentum.

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