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Pathak Worksheet Physics -12th

MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF CURRENT

Very Short Answer types questions (1 marks)

1 A proton moving in a straight line enters a strong magnetic field along the field direction. How will its path and
velocity change?
2. Equal current I flows through two infinitely long parallel wires separated by distance r. What will be the magnetic
field at a point mid-way when the currents are flowing in the same direction?
3. An electron beam projected along +X- axis, experiences a force due to a magnetic field along the + Y-axis. What is
the direction of the magnetic field?
4. A beam of  particles projected along + x-axis, experiences a force due to a magnetic field along the + y-axis as
shown in the following Fig. What is the direction of magnetic field?

5. A positive charge moving vertically upwards enters a magnetic field directed towards south. What is the direction
of the force on the charge?
6. A charged particle moves perpendicular to a magnetic field. How its kinetic energy and momentum are affected?
7. How will the magnetic field intensity at the centre of the circular coil carrying current change, if the current
through the coil is doubled and the radius of the coil is halved?
8. An electron is passing through a field but no force is acting on it. Under what conditions is it possible, if the
motion of the electron be in the (i) electric field (ii) magnetic field?
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9. An electron moves with velocity v  akˆ in a magnetic field B  biˆ  cˆj . Find the expression of force acting on
the electron.
10. Why concave shaped magnetic poles are being used in moving coil galvanometer?
OR
Why radial magnetic field is being used in moving coil galvanometer?

11. What is the function of soft iron core cylinder used in galvanometer?

Short Answer types questions (2 marks)

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1. Write the relations for the force F acting on a charge carrier q moving with a velocity  through a magnetic
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field B in vector notation. Using this relation, deduce the conditions under which this force will be (i) maximum
(ii) minimum.
2. How will the magnetic field strength at the centre of the circular coil carrying current change, if the current
through the coil is doubled and the radius of the coil is halved?
3. A circular coil of 500 turns has a radius of 2.0 m and carries a current of 2A. What is the magnetic field at a point
on the axis of the coil at a distance equal to radius of the coil from the centre? [Ans. 3.14 ´ 10-4T]
4. Two identical charged particles moving with same speed enter a region of uniform magnetic field. If one of these
enters normal to the field direction and the other enters along a direction at 30° with the field, what would be the
ratio of their angular frequencies?
5. An  - particle and a proton are moving in the plane on the paper in a region where there is a uniform magnetic
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field  B directed normal to the plane of the paper. If the two particles have equal linear momentum, what will
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be the ratio of the radii of their trajectories in the field?
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6. A charged particle moving with a uniform velocity v enters a region where uniform electric and magnetic field
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E and B are present. It passes through the region without any change in its velocity. What can we conclude
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about the (a) relative direction of E, v and B? (b) ratio of magnitudes of E and B ?
7. Two identical charged particles moving with same speed enter a region of uniform magnetic field. If one of these
enters normal to the field direction and the other enters along a direction at 30° with the field, what would be the
ratio of their angular frequencies?
8 A stream of electrons traveling with speed vms 1 at right angles to a uniform magnetic field 'B' is deflected in a
e v
circular path of radius 'r'. Prove that  .
m rB
9. An electron and a proton moving with the same speed enter the same magnetic field region at right angles to the
direction of the field. For which of the two particles with the radius of the circular path be smaller and why?
10. A long straight conductor PQ carrying a current of 75 A, is fixed horizontally. Another long conductor XY is kept
parallel to PQ at a distance of 5 mm, in air. Conductor XY is free to move and carries a current I. Calculate the
magnitude and direction of current I for which the magnetic repulsion just balances the weight of conductor XY
(Mass per unit length for conductor XY is 10-2 kgm-1).

Short Answer types questions (3 marks)

1. State Biot -Savart law. Express it in vector form. Using this law, derive the expression for the magnetic field at the
center of a current carrying circular loop.
2. Two concentric coils X and Y of radii 16 cm and 10 cm respectively lie in the same vertical plane containing the
north-south direction. Coil X has 20 turns and carries a current of 16 A; coil Y has 25 turns and carries a current of
18 A. The sense of current in X is anti-clockwise and in Y, clockwise, for an observer looking at the coil facing
west. Give the magnitude and direction of the net magnetic field due to the coils at their centre. [Ans. 1.6 ´ 10-3
T.]
3. State the Biot-Savart law for the magnetic field due to a current carrying element. Use this law to obtain a formula
for magnetic field at the centre of a circular loop of radius R carrying a steady current I. Sketch the magnetic field
lines for a current loop clearly indicating the direction of the field. [CBSE 2006, 2007]
4. State Biot - Savart law. Using this law derive an expression for the magnetic field due to a circular coil carrying
current at a point on its axis. What is its direction? Draw the magnetic field lines due to a circular current carrying
loop.
5. State Ampere's circuital law. Derive an expression for the magnetic field due to a toroid?
6. Derive an expression for the force per unit length between two infinitely long linear current carrying parallel
conductors. Hence, define one ampere.
7. A charged particle with charge q moving in a straight line is accelerated by a pd V. It enters a uniform magnetic
field B perpendicular to its path. Deduce in terms of V an expression for the radius of the circular path along
which it travels.
8. A long straight wire AB carries a current of 4 A. A proton P travels at 4  10 ms parallel to
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the wire, 0.2 m
from it and in a direction opposite to the current as shown in following Fig. Calculate the force which the
magnetic field of current exerts on the proton. Also specify the direction of the force.

9. The diagram shows a rectangular current-carrying loop placed 2 cm away from a long, straight, current- carrying
conductor. What is the direction and magnitude of the net force acting on the loop?
10. What is an ammeter? What should be resistance on an ideal ammeter? Discuss conversion of a galvanometer into
Ammeter of given range 0  I .
11. What is Voltmeter? What should be resistance on an ideal voltmeter? Discuss conversion of a galvanometer into
voltmeter of given range 0  V
12. A voltmeter reads 5 V at full scale deflection and is graded according to its resistance per volt at full scale
deflection as 5000 / V . How will you convert it into a voltmeter that reads 20 vat full scale deflection? Will it
still be graded as 5000 / V ? Will you prefer this voltmeter to one that is graded as 2000 / V ?
(Ans: A resistance 75000 ; this is more accurate than one that is graded as 2000 / V )
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13. A proton and an alpha particle are projected in a perpendicular magnetic field B which exits in a region of
width ‘d’ . Find the ratio of sines of the angle of deviation suffered by the proton and alpha particle, if before
entering in the magnetic field region both particles (i) have the same momentum (ii) have the same kinetic energy.
14. A current of

Long Answer types questions (5 marks)

1*. Explain the principle and working of cyclotron with the help of a labeled diagram. A cyclotron oscillator
frequency is 10 MHz what should be the operating magnetic field for accelerating protons? If the radius of it’s
'Dees’ is 60 cm, what is the kinetic energy of the proton beam produced by accelerator? Express your answer in
units of MeV.  e  1.6 10 19
C , m p  1.67  1027 kg , MeV  1.602  1013 J 
2. (a) Using Bio-Savart law derive an expression for the magnetic field due to a current carrying loop at a point on
the axis of the loop.
(b) A long straight conductor carries a steady current 'I'. The current is distributed uniformly across its cross
section of radius 'a'. Plot a graph showing the variation of magnetic field 'B' produced by the conductor with
the distance 'r' from the axis of the conductor in the region (a) r< a and (b) r > a.

3. Depict the magnetic field lines due to two straight, long, parallel conductors carrying current I 1 and I2 in the same
direction. Hence deduce an expression for the force acting per unit length on one conductor due to the other. Is
this force attractive or repulsive? Also define unit of current one ampere.
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4. A rectangular loop having side length l & b is present in external uniform magnetic field B . The loop contains N
number of turns and carrying current I. The loop is free to rotate about an axis lying in the plane of loop and
perpendicular to the direction of magnetic field. Derive the expression for the torque acting on the loop. Express it
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in terms of magnetic moment M and magnetic field B . Under what condition the torque is maximum and
minimum.
5. Discuss construction and working of moving coil galvanometer with labeled diagram. Define and derive the
expressions for current and voltage sensitivity. How sensitivities do depend on number of turns in the loop?
6. A uniform magnetic field of 1.5 T exists in a cylindrical region of radius 10 cm, its direction is parallel to the axis
along east to west. A wire carrying current of 7.0A in the north to south direction passes through this region.
What is the magnitude and direction of the force on the wire if (a) the wire intersects the axis, (b) the wire is
turned from N-S to northeast-southwest direction, (c) the wire in N-S direction is lowered from the axis by a
distance of 6.0 cm? Ans:- (a)2.1 downwards; (b) 2.1 downwards; (c) 1.68downwards