AL YASMIN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL,RIYADH

(PEEVEES SCHOOLS, K.S.A)

Affiliated to CBSE – New Delhi.

PHYSICS
WORKSHEET – 3

Class: XII MOVING CHARGES AND MAGNETISM

1. Define Lorentz force.

2. What is Biot – Savart’s law?
3. State and prove Ampere’s Circuital law in electromagnetism.
4. Use Ampere’s law to derive magnetic field due to a long solenoid and a toroid.
5. What are magnetic field lines? State their properties.
6. Describe the construction of a cyclotron and explain its principle and working using a diagram.
Why it can’t be used to accelerate electrons?
7. Find the expression for the maximum kinetic energy of particles accelerated in a cyclotron.
8. Derive an expression for the force on a current carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field.
9. Show that two parallel conductors carrying currents in the same direction attract each other
while those carrying currents in opposite direction repel each other. Compute the magnitude of
this force. How has ‘Ampere’, the unit of electric current, been defined on this basis?
10. Find the magnetic field due to a current carrying circular coil at its centre.
11. Obtain an expression for the torque acting on a current carrying loop. Show that the same
expression holds for any closed loop of arbitrary shape.
12. An electron moving along positive X - axis enters a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of
paper directed downward. Can we apply an electric field so that the electron experiences no
force? If yes find the magnitude and direction of the electric field.
13. Discuss the motion of a charged particle moving at right angles to a uniform magnetic field.
14. Discuss the motion of a charged particle enters at an angle’ Ө ‘with magnetic field.
15. Show that the radius of curvature of the path of the particle is proportional to the momentum
and square root of the accelerating voltage.
16. Prove that the time period of the charged particle is independent of its speed and radius of the
orbit.
17. Describe the construction and give the theory of a moving coil galvanometer.
18. What do you understand by the current sensitivity and voltage sensitivity of a galvanometer?
Derive an expression for it and hence show how the sensitivity of the galvanometer can be
increased?
19. Explain how a moving coil galvanometer can be converted into an ammeter by combination with
suitable resistances.
20. Explain how a moving coil galvanometer can be converted into a voltmeter by combination with
suitable resistances.
21. Obtain an expression for the magnetic moment of a current carrying loop.
22. Find the expression for magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. Find the numerical
value of Bohr’s magneton.
23. Define the term magnetic moment.
24. Write the expression for the magnetic moment when an electron revolves at a speed v around
an orbit of radius r in hydrogen atom.
25. State two reasons why a galvanometer cannot be used as such to measure current in a given
circuit.
26. Write two uses of cyclotron
27. Use Biot – Savart law to derive an expression for the magnetic field produced at a point near a
long current carrying wire.
28. What is resonance condition of a cyclotron? How is it used to accelerate charged particles?
29. What is the function of uniform radial field in a moving coil galvanometer?
30. What is the relationship between the current and the magnetic moment of a current carrying
circular loop?