Chapter 11 – 15

1. Aircraft sometimes acquire small static charges. Suppose a supersonic

jet has a 0.500- μC charge and flies to west at a speed of 660 m/s over
Earth’s south magnetic pole, where the 7*10^(-5) T magnetic field
points straight down into the ground. What is the magnitude of the
magnetic force on the plane? (2.31E-8 N)
2. A wire carrying an 3.25 A current passes between the poles of a strong
magnet perpendicular to its field and experiences a 2.16-N force on the
4.00 cm of the wire in the field. What is the average field strength?
(16.615384615385 T)
3. Calculate the magnetic field strength needed on an 175 turn square loop
20.0 cm on a side to create a maximum torque of 300 N ⋅ m if the loop
is carrying current of 25.0 A. (1.7142857142857T)
4. A copper square loop with sides 0.15 m and mass 4.19 kg can spin
freely around the central axis in the loop’s plane. A current of 4.93 A
is sent around the loop and a uniform magnetic field of 0.85 T is
directed parallel to the plane of the square. What is the maximum
kinetic energy that the loop can acquire? µ0 = 4π × 10-7 H/m
(3.86650176J)
5. A 0.5 m long straight wire section has a resistance R = 53.0 ohm and is
connected, with conducting wire of negligible resistance, to a 4.50 V
battery. The wire is located in a uniform magnetic field B directed
perpendicular to that section of wire. Calculate the magnitude
of B when the force on the wire due to B has a magnitude of 0.8
N. µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m (18.823529411765T)
6. A proton, which is accelerated from rest by a potential of 5 kV, enters
the velocity filter, consisting of a parallel-plate capacitor and a
magnetic field, shown below. The E-field between the parallel
capacitor plates is 5.5·105 N/C. What B-field is required so that the
 protons are not deflected? µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m. The mass of the proton
is 1.67E-27 kg. q = 1.6E-19 C (0.56190246039682 T)

7. The rectangular loop shown below is located in a uniform magnetic

field of 0.42 T pointing in the negative x direction. The current through
the loop is I = 7.9 A. Calculate the magnitude of the torque on the
loop. µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m A=B=4.5cm, θ=30.0°. (0.0058186107 Nm)

8. The two long, parallel wires shown in the accompanying figure carry
currents in the same direction. If I1 =10 A and I2 = 19 A, what is the
magnitude of the magnetic field at point P? (6.2667E-5 T)
9. Two long, parallel wires are hung by cords of length 4 cm, as shown in
the accompanying figure. Each wire has a mass per unit length of 30
g/m, and they carry the same current in opposite directions. What is the
current if the cords hang at 6.0° with respect to the vertical?
µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m (35.943845092032 A)

10. How many turns must be wound on a flat, circular coil of radius 35
cm in order to produce a magnetic field of magnitude 4.0*10^(-5) T at
the center of the coil when the current through it is 0.85 A? (26.2255)
11. A solenoid has 14 turns per centimeter. What current will produce a
magnetic field of 2.0*10-2 T within the solenoid? (11.37357142857 A)
12. A long hairpin is formed by bending an infinitely long wire, as
shown. If a current of 2.2 A is set up in the wire, what is the magnitude
of the magnetic field at the point a? R = 3.5 cm. (3.2308571471E-5 T)

13. A solid rod of radius R carries a current of i = 2 A, into the page,

with a uniform current density. There is also a thin wire at a distance
2R away from the surface of the rod. Point P is on the line between the
two, at a distance R from the wire. (See figure below.)
 What is the magnitude of the current in the thin wire so that the
magnetic field at point P equals the magnetic field at the center of the
rod? Use (+) for current into the page, (-) for out of the page. (Hint: For
two vectors quantities to be equal, both their magnitudes and directions
have to be the same.) (3 A)

14. A long solenoid with n = 10 turns per centimeter has a cross-

sectional area of 5.0 cm^2 and carries a current of 0.25 A. A coil with
6 turns encircles the solenoid. When the current through the solenoid is
turned off, it decreases to zero in 0.01 s. What is the magnitude of the
average emf induced in the coil? (9.42E-5 V)
15. The magnetic field perpendicular to a single wire loop of diameter
10.0 cm decreases from 0.1 T to zero. The wire is made of copper and
has a diameter of 2.0 mm and a length 31.4 cm. How much charge
moves through the wire while the field is changing? ρ = 1.70 x 10-
8 Ωm (copper) (0.4615 C)
16. In the accompanying figure, the rails, connecting end piece, and rod
all have a resistance per unit length of 2.0 Ohm/cm. The rod moves to
the left at v = 3.0 m/s. If B = 0.82 T everywhere in the region, what is
the current in the circuit when a = 8.0 cm? (0.00205 A)
17. A rectangular coil of 436 turns has dimensions of 48 x 66 cm and is
located in a uniform 4 T magnetic field. In 0.5 s, the plane of the coil
is rotated from a position where it makes an angle of 28° with the
magnetic field to a position where it makes an angle of 66°. Calculate
the average emf induced in the coil. When the coil is rotated, the flux
through its surface changes. The average rate of change of flux with
time is a measure of the average induced emf. (490.72978944 V)
18. The figure shows a copper rod moving at a velocity of
8.37 m/s parallel to a long straight wire carrying a 1.49 A current.
Calculate the emf induced in the rod, assuming that a = 1 cm and b =
2.3 cm. µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m (2.0774940966E-6 V)

19. An emf of 6.4*10-3 V is induced in a coil while the current in a

nearby coil is decreasing at a rate of 2.7 A/s. What is the magnitude of
the mutual inductance of the two coils? (0.0023703703703704 H)
20. A toroidal coil has a mean radius of 16 cm and a cross-sectional area
of 0.25 cm2; it is wound uniformly with 950 turns. A second toroidal
coil of 700 turns is wound uniformly over the first coil. Ignoring the
variation of the magnetic field within a toroid, determine the mutual
inductance of the two coils. µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m (2.078125E-5 H)
21. A coil with a self-inductance of 9 H carries a current that decreases
at a uniform rate dI/dt = −0.05 A/s. What is the magnitude of the emf
induced in the coil? (0.45 V)
22. An LC circuit with L = 2 × 10-4 H and C = 4 × 10-6 F is being
driven by an oscillating source of emf. The source delivers a voltage
of ϵ=εmaxsin(ωt) with εmax = 1 V and ω = 1 × 104 rad/s. What is the
peak instantaneous current across the capacitor? (0.0434782608695 A)
23. A 20 µF capacitor is connected to an emf given by v(t) =
(160V)sin(120πt). What is the reactance of the capacitor?
(132.69639065817 Ohm)
24. In an RLC series circuit, the voltage amplitude and frequency of the
source are 100 V and 500 Hz, respectively, an R = 650 Ohm, L = 0.20
H, and C = 2.0 µF. What is the impedance of the circuit?
(801.40189667856 Ohm)
25. Calculate the rms currents for an ac source is given
by V(t)=V0*sin(ωt) where Vo = 100 V and ω = 200π rad/s when
connected across a 25 µF capacitor (1.11 A)
26. An ideal step-down transformer has a primary coil of 660 turns and
a secondary coil of 44 turns. It is plugged into an AC outlet with
130 V and it draws a current of 0.86 A. Calculate the average power
dissipated. µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m (111.8 W)
27. A plug–in transformer, like that in the figure below, supplies voltage
7.50 V to a video game system. What is its input current when its output
current is 1.10 A and the primary coil has 380 turns and secondary coil
has 32 turns? µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m (0.092631578947368 A)

28. Consider the RLC circuit shown in the figure driven by a sinusoidal
emf. Calculate the RMS current through the capacitor at the resonance
 frequency. Use the following data: εRMS = 190 V, R = 330 Ω, L = 32.0
mH, C = 0.260 mF. (0.57575757575758 A)

29. The following graph shows the voltage and current through a single
circuit element. What is its inductance? VP = 20.96 V, IP = 4.75 �, f
= 50 Hz, µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m. (0.014052966811934 H)

30. What value of inductance should be used if a 13.2 kΩ reactance is

needed at a frequency of 220 Hz? µ0= 4π × 10-7 H/m
(9.5541401273885 H)