AMPAD,

VADODARA
GUJARAT
ACADEMIC YEAR [2023-24]

PHYSICS PROJECT FILE

PROJECT: ROGET’S EXPERIMENT

REPORTED BY:

Name: RISHIRAJ SONI

Grade: XII D

Roll No.:

REPORTED

TO:

MR. PRITESH

PANCHAL

PGT – PHYSICS
 CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that Mst..
of Grade XII Science,
has successfully completed his/her Project under the
guidance and supervision of the Internal Examiner.

The Project entitled “ROGET’S EXPERIMENT” has been

submitted for the academic year 2023-24 as per the rules of
CBSE. The project has fulfilled all the conditions to the
best of my knowledge and information.

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL

EXAMINER

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT PRINCIPAL

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I wish to express my deep gratitude and sincere thanks to

the Principal, Mr. Irfan Multani, Green Valley High
School for his encouragement and all the facilities that he
has provided for this project work.

I extend my hearty thanks

to , who guided me
to the successful completion of this project. I take this
opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude for their
valuable guidance, constant encouragement, immense
motivation which has sustained my efforts at all stages of
this project.
I cannot forget to offer my sincere thanks to my parents and
classmates who helped me with the advice and support
from time to time.
 ROGET’S EXPERIMENT
Table of contents:
Pg. 1 Introductory theory

Pg. 2 Experimental setup

Pg. 3 Procedure

Pg. 4 Observations, conclusion &

sources of error

Pg. 5 Acknowledgements
# ROGET’S EXPERIMENT:
AIM: To analyze the effect of current through a conductor (as in this case, a wire)
by Roget’s jumping spiral experiment.

#FORCE ON PARALLEL CURRENT CARRYING CONDUCTORS

1. Two wires carrying current in the same direction –

▪ The direction of magnetic field is indicated in the figure
and is found using the right-hand thumb rule. The
direction of the magnetic field, as we can see, is
downwards due to the first conductor and upwards due
to the second conductor.

▪ From the Ampere’s circuital law, the magnitude of the

field due to the first conductor and the second conductor
in the two respective cases can be given as shown above.

▪ The direction of forces on the two respective conductors

due to each other can be found out using Fleming’s left
hand rule.

▪ Hence, we can infer from the above results that two

parallel wires carrying
current in the same
direction attract each
other whereas the same
wires with current in the
opposite direction repel
each other.
Main Experiment
APPARATUS REQUIRED:

A metal or wooden clamp, a shallow bowl filled with mercury,

a soft metal spring, ruler, etc.

PROCEDURE:

USES: With the use of a soft spring, we can increase the effective
length of the parallel current and
by using mercury, we can make
the displacement of even a few
mm observable very dramatically.
You will also need a constant-
current supply giving a constant
current of about 5 A.
• Take a soft spring whose
natural period of oscillations
is about 0.5 – 1s. Hang it
vertically and attach a pointed tip to its lower end, as shown
in the figure here.

• Take some mercury in a dish and adjust the spring such that
the tip is just above the mercury surface.

• Take the DC current source, connect one of its terminals to

the upper end of the spring, and dip the other terminal in
mercury. If the tip of the spring touches mercury, the circuit
is completed through mercury.

• Let the DC source be put off to begin with. Let the tip be
adjusted so that it just touches the mercury surface.

• Switch on the constant current supply, and watch the fascinating

outcome.
OBSERVATION:

• The spring shrinks with a jerk, the tip comes out of mercury
(just by a mm or so), the circuit is broken, the current stops,
the spring relaxes and tries to come back to its original
position, the tip again touches mercury establishing a current
in the circuit, and the cycle continues with tick, tick, tick.

CONCLUSION:

• On switching on the current & mercury being a conductor of

electricity makes the circuit complete through it & the metal
spring.
• As the current passes through the coiled metal spring, the
direction of current in each of the circular loops is same, either
clockwise or anticlockwise.
• Following the same, as the direction of current is same in the
adjacent circular loops, they exert an attractive force on each
other as demonstrated in the theory,
• This attraction between consecutive parts of the spring
causes the spring to contract and eventually rise up
immediately.
• This breaks the contact of the spring with the mercury and
thus breaks the circuit.
• Now again as there is no current in the spring it will recoil to
its original length & again establishing the contact with
mercury, thus completing one cycle
• The above mentioned steps keep happening periodically and
the spring keeps oscillating.

SOURCES OR ERROR & PRECAUTIONS:

• Take care of the small adjustments in the beginning to get unaffected

results.
• Keep your face away from mercury vapors as they are
poisonous. Do not inhale mercury vapors for long.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Class XII physics Part 1 NCERT

• Harvard university official website
• Byju’s
• Physics Liber texts
RISHIRAJ SONI