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Moving Coil
Moving Coil
Answer: - It is a device used to detect and measure small current in the circuit.
Principle: -A current carrying coil placed in a magnetic field experiences a torque.
Construction: - It consists of a narrow rectangular coil having a large number of turns of copper wound on
a non-metallic frame. It is suspended between the semicircular poles pieces of powerful horseshoe magnet
by mean of a suspension wire made of phosphor bronze with a plane mirror attached to it. A cylindrical
soft iron core is fixed within the coil. This makes the magnetic field linked with coil to be radial. At the
lower end, coil is attached to a fine spring. Lamp and
Scale arrangement is used to measure deflection.
Working: When the current I is passed through the coil, it Concave Mirror
field S R
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