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The document contains a problem set focused on Faraday's Laws, exploring electric and magnetic fields generated by charged wires and currents. It includes questions on calculating electric fields, magnetic flux, induced electromotive force (emf), and current in various configurations of loops and wires. The problems emphasize symmetry considerations, resistance, and the effects of motion in magnetic fields.

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faradaysLawProblems

The document contains a problem set focused on Faraday's Laws, exploring electric and magnetic fields generated by charged wires and currents. It includes questions on calculating electric fields, magnetic flux, induced electromotive force (emf), and current in various configurations of loops and wires. The problems emphasize symmetry considerations, resistance, and the effects of motion in magnetic fields.

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PH1201 Problem Set on Farady’s Laws

Q 1) What can you say about the electric field of a uniformly charged straight
dielectric wire on the basis of symmetry considerations alone? Hint : though
symmetry does not give you enough information to enable you to determine
the field using Gauss law here, it does give you a surprising amount. It will be
easiest if you choose your coordinate system to be cylindrical polar, (ρ, θ, z),
with the wire stretched along the z axis from −l to +l. One of the results you
can get from rotational symmetry, for example, is that Eρ is a function of ρ
and z alone, with Eρ (ρ, +z) = Eρ (ρ, −z).
Q 2) Repeat the same thing as above, but this time for the magnetic field
due to a finite straight conducting wire carrying a current.
Q 3) A loop shaped like an equilateral triangle of side a is placed with one of
its sides parallel to infinitely long wire carrying a current I so that the wire
is in the plane of the triangle.

a) Determine the flux through the triangle as a func-


tion of the distance x between the wire and the side
a
of the loop parallel to it.
b) Determine the emf in the loop if it is dragged with I
a speed v away from the current carrying wire. x
c) If the net resistance of the loop is R, what is the
force that you need to exert on the loop to maintain
the speed v at a constant value?
Q 4) A rectangular loop with a sliding connector of length l is located in
a uniform magnetic field B perpendicular to the plane of the loop. The
connector has a resistance R and the sides parallel to the connector have
resistances R1 and R2 . Find the current flowing in the connector during its
motion with a constant velocity v. Neglect the self inductance of the loop.

1
B B
R R v R
1 2
l

Q 5) A large uniform wire of resistance per unit length λ is bent at right


angle so as to form the axes of the coordinate system. A uniform magnetic
field B acts perpendicular to the plane of the paper. Another identical wire
AB starts from the origin and slides along the wires with a uniform velocity
v making an angle π4 with the axes and at any given instant the circuit is
closed. Show that the current flowing in the circuit is constant.

y . . .
B
. .. .
A v
. . .

O x
B

Q 6) A rectangular conducting coil, with sides a and b, is placed in a varying


⃗ = ĵB0 sin ωt. Initially the loop has a pair of its sides parallel
magnetic field B
to the z axis and the normal to the loop makes an angle α with the y axis.
Find the induced e.m.f in the loop (a) if the loop is at rest, (b) if the coil
rotates with an angular velocity ω about the z-axis.
Q 7) In the set up shown with an infinite solenoid (perpendicular to the plane
of the paper) carrying a sinusoidally time varying current , the readings of the
two ac voltmeters are V0 each when the two resistors are R1 = R2 = R. What
will be the readings of the two voltmeters if the resistance R2 is changed to
5R, all other things staying unchanged?

2
V1

R1

⊙ ⊙
⊙ ⊙ ⊙
⊙ ⊙

R2

V2

How much would each voltmeter read if both of them were now bought to
the same side as the resistor marked R2 ?
Q 8) Consider the same set up as in the previous problem, but with a short
solenoid. If now the wires connecting the two ends of one of the voltmeters
are brought closer together, will its reading increase, decrease, or remain the
same? What will happen to the reading of the other multimeter?

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