roblems For Practice
A bar magnet is 0.10 m long and its pole strength is
12 Am. Find the magnitude of the magnetic field at
a point on its axis at a distance of 20 em trom it,
(Avs 24x 10° 2
Calculate the magnetic field due to a bar magnet
2m long and having a pole strength of 100 Am ata
point 10 cm from each pole. (Aes 2810 1)
A bar magnet has a length of 8 cm. The magnetic
field at a point at a distance of 3 cm from the centre
in the broad-side on position is found to be 4.x 10° T.
Calculate the pole strength of the magnet.
(Ans 6x10 Am)
The magnetic moment of a current-loop is
2.1x 10° Am?. Find the magnetic field on the axis
of the loop at a distance of 1.0 A from the loop,
(Qos 42 x10? T)
If the earth’s magnetic field has a magnitude of
3.4x10° T at the magnetic equator of the earth,
what would be its value at the magnetic poles of the
earth ? (Ans 6.8.x 105 T)
The intensities of magnetic field at two points on
the axis of a bar magnet at distances 0.1 m and 0.2 m*
from its middle point are in the ratio 125 : 1,
Calculate the distance between the poles of the
magnet. (Ans 0.1m)
Two short magnets a and 6 of magnetic moments
0.108 Am? and 0.192 Am? are placed along
mutually perpendicular straight lines meeting at a
point P. Find the magnitude and direction of
magnetic field at point P, if it lies at distances 30 em
and 60 cm respectively from the centres of the two
magnets.
(Ans 8.24107 T, at 14° with the axis of a)yA robles ForPractice
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Two magnetic south poles are located 4.0 cm apart.
If the poles of each magnet have a strength of
8.0 Am and are 20.0 cm apart, find the force exerted
by one south pole on the other. (Ans. 4.0 x 10°N)
Two equal and unlike poles placed 5 cm apart in air
attract each other with a force of 14.4 x 104 N. How
far from each other should they be placed so that
the force of attraction will be 1.6«10-4N ?
(Ans. 0.15 m)
Two magnetic poles, one of which is 10 times as
strong as the other, exert on each other a force equal
to 9.604 mN, when placed 10 cm apart in air. Find
the strength of the two poles.
(Ans. 9.8 Am, 98 Am)
Two like magnetic poles of strengths 5 Am and
20 Am are situated 1.0 m apart. At what point on
the line joining the two poles, will the magnetic
field be zero ?
(Ans. 0.33 m from 5 Am pole towards 20 Am pole,
1m from 5 Am pole away from 20 Am pole)
. Two bar magnets of length 0.1 m and pole strength
75 Am each, are placed on the same line. The
distance between their centres is 0.2 m. What is the
resultant force due to one on the other when (i) the
north pole of one faces the south pole of the other
and (ii) the north pole of one faces the north pole of
the other ? (Ans. (i) 3.4107 N (attraction),
(ii) 3.410 N (repulsion)]
A magnetic dipole of length 15 cm has a dipole
moment of 1.5 Am”. What is the pole strength ?
(Ans. 10 Am)
A magnetised steel wire 31.4 cm long has a pole
strength of 0.2 Am. It is bent in the form of a
semicircle. Calculate the magnetic moment of the
steel wire. (Ans. 0.04 Am?)
Two thin bar magnets of pole strengths 25 Am and
48 Am respectively and lengths 0.20 m and 0.25 m
respectively are placed at right angles to each other
with the N-pole of first touching the S-pole of the
second. Find the magnetic moment of the system.
(Ans. 13 Am?)