CLASS X PHYSICS ASSIGNMENT

MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF ELECTRIC CURRENT

TOPIC: MAGNETISM/MAGNETIC FIELD AROUND CURRENT CARRYING STRAIGHT
CONDUCTOR, CURRENT CARRYING CIRCULAR LOOP AND CURRENT CARRYING SOLENOID
1. How can it be shown that a magnetic field exists around a current-carrying wire?
2. Draw the pattern of magnetic field lines around a current carrying a straight conductor.
3. How is the direction of the magnetic field at a point determined?
4. A magnetic compass is placed near a current-carrying wire. What will you observe
(i) When the current in the wire is increased.
(ii) When a magnetic compass is displaced away from the wire.
5. ‘Two magnetic field lines do not intersect each other’. Justify.
6. (i) What is the direction of the magnetic field inside and outside a bar magnet?
(ii)What does the degree of closeness of magnetic field lines represent?
7. AB is a current-carrying conductor in the plane of the paper as shown in the figure. What are the
directions of magnetic fields produced by it at points P and Q?

B
8. A positive charge is moving towards a person. What is the direction of the magnetic field?
9. If the circular coil has n turns, the field produced is n times as large as that produced by a single
turn. Justify it.
10. In the diagram given below, mark the North and South Pole of the soft iron
core AB.
11. How will you determine the direction of the magnetic field due to current – carrying solenoid?
12. State the important features of the magnetic field obtained inside the solenoid. Write anyone
use of solenoid.
13. What is meant by solenoid? How does a current-carrying solenoid behave?
14. Draw the pattern of magnetic field lines, through and around a current-carrying loop of wire.
Mark the direction of (i) electric current in the loop and (ii) magnetic field lines.
15. How would the strength of the magnetic field due to current, carrying loop be affected if-
a. Radius of the loop is reduced to half its original value?
b. Strength of the current through the loop doubled?
16. Mention any two advantages and applications of electromagnets.
17. What does the divergence of magnetic field lines near the ends of a current carrying a straight
solenoid indicate?
18. Explain with a reason whether the field will be stronger at the centre of the current carrying loop
or near the circumference of the loop.
19. i. Kanchi draws magnetic field lines of field close to the axis of a current
carrying circular loop. As she moves away from the centre of the circular
loop she observes that the lines keep on diverging. How will you explain
her observation?
ii. Why does a magnetic compass needle pointing North and South in the absence of a nearby
magnet get deflected when a bar magnet or a current-carrying loop is brought near it?
CASE STUDY:
20. An insulated copper wire wound on a cylindrical cardboard tube such that its length is greater than
its diameter is called a solenoid. When an electric current is
passed through the solenoid, it produces a magnetic field
around it. The magnetic field produced by a current-carrying
solenoid is similar to the magnetic field produced by a bar
magnet.
i. What will be the strength of the magnetic field inside a long current-carrying straight
solenoid?
ii. A long solenoid carrying a current produces a magnetic field B along its axis. If the current is
double and the number of turns per cm is halved, then the new value of the magnetic field?

CASE STUDY:
In the process of developing our modern understanding of electricity, magnetism and
electromagnetism, our predecessors carried out various experiments and find that an electric
current in a wire has a heating effect and may cause the wire to glow. This showed that the three
phenomena of electricity, heating and lighting were connected. Besides these, they discover the
concepts of charge, conservation of charge, and the nature of electric and magnetic fields.

Hans Christian Oersted, in 1820 was a Danish scientist who noticed that a compass needle placed in
close proximity deflected its initially aligned north-south direction in the presence of a current-
carrying wire. He showed that electricity and magnetism are related phenomena.

This experiment is one of the most important in the utilisation of electric power as it led to the
discovery of electromagnetism and the development of electric motors. His research later created
technologies such as radio, television and fibre optics.

(i) What is the conclusion of Oersted’s experiment?

(ii) In Oersted’s experiment, which type of source is used? Draw the labelled diagram.
(iii) What is the significance of this experiment?
21. Assertion and Reason:
The following questions consist of two statements – Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Answer
these questions by selecting the appropriate option given below:
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.

(i) Assertion(A): A compass needle is placed near a current-carrying wire. The

deflection of the compass needle decreases when the magnitude of an electric
current in the wire is increased.
Reason (R): The strength of a magnetic field at a point near the conductor increases
by increasing the current.

(ii) Assertion(A): On freely suspending a current-carrying solenoid, it comes to rest in

the N-S direction just like a bar magnet.
Reason (R): One end of the current carrying straight solenoid behaves as a North
pole and the other end as a South pole.

(iii) Assertion(A): On changing the direction of the flow of current through a straight
conductor, the direction of a magnetic field around the conductor is reversed.
Reason (R): The direction of the magnetic field around a conductor can be given by
the left-hand thumb rule.

(iv) Assertion(A): The strength of the magnetic field produced at the centre of a current-
carrying circular coil increases on increasing the radius of the circular coil.
Reason (R): Magnetic field strength is inversely proportional to the radius of the
circular coil.