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PROJECT ON
MOVING
COIL
GALVANOMETER
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Submitted by:
Name: DIPANSHU
Class: XII SCIENCE
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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the project entitled “Report on
Moving Coil Galvanometer” is the bona fide work of him
submitted to THE SHRI RAM UNIVERSAL SCHOOL
ROHTAK for consideration in partial fulfilment of the
requirement of CBSE. For the award of Senior School
Certificate in Science.
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Examiner’s Signature Teacher’s Signature
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to
my teacher Mr ANIL CHAUHAN as well as our
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principal Mrs AARTI Who gave me the golden
opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic
“Report on Moving Coil Galvanometer”, which also
helped me in doing a lot of Research and I Came to
Know about so many thing I am really thankful to them.
Secondly I would also like to thank my parents and
friends who helped me a lot in finalizing this project
within the limited time frame
Index
S.no. Title PAGE No.
1. Certificate 2
2. Acknowledgement 3
3. Index 4
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4 Introduction 5
5 Principle and 6-7
Construction
6 Theory 8-9
7 Advantages and 10
Disadvantages
8 Sensitivity and Accuracy 11-13
9 Bibliography 14
Introduction
A galvanometer is an electromechanical instrument for detecting and
indicating electric current. A galvanometer works as an actuator, by
Producing a rotary deflection (of a "pointer"), in response to electric
Current flowing through a coil in a constant magnetic field. Early
Galvanometers were not calibrated, but their later developments were used
as measuring instruments, called ammeters, to measure the current
flowing through an electric circuit.
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Galvanometers developed from the observation that the needle of a
magnetic compass is deflected near a wire that has electric current flowing
through it, first described by Hans Oersted in 1820. They were the first
instruments used to detect and measure small amounts of electric
Currents. André-Marie Ampère, who gave mathematical expression to
Ørsted's discovery and named the instrument after the Italian electricity
researcher Luigi Galvani, who in 1791 discovered the principle of the frog
galvanoscope – that electric current would make the legs of a dead frog
jerk.
Principle
When a current carrying coil is suspended in a uniform
magnetic field it is acted upon by a torque. Under the
action of this torque, the coil rotates and the deflection in
the coil in a moving coil galvanometer is directly
proportional to the current flowing through the coil.
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Construction
The suspended type consists of a rectangular coil of thin insulated copper wires
having a large number of turns.
The horseshoe magnet has cylindrically concave pole-pieces. Due to this shape, the
magnet produces radial magnetic field so that when coil rotates in any position its
plane is always parallel to the direction of magnetic field. When current flows
through the coil it gets deflected.
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A soft iron cylinder is fixed inside the coil such that the coil can rotate freely
between the poles and around the cylinder. Due to the high permittivity, the soft
iron core increases the strength of the radial magnetic field.
A small plane mirror M is fixed to the suspension fibre. This along with lamp and
scale arrangement is used to measure the deflection of the coil.
Theory
Consider a rectangular coil PQRS of single turn having length ‘l’ and breadth ‘b’
suspended in a uniform magnetic field of induction B such that the plane of the
coil is parallel to the magnetic field. Let ‘I’ be the current through the coil.
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• The sides PS and QR being parallel to the magnetic field do not experience
any force, but the sides PQ and RS being perpendicular to the magnetic
field experience force. The force experienced by each side is given by F
=BIl
τ=Fxb
τ=BIl×b
τ=BIA
If the coil has ‘n’ turns, then the deflecting torque is given by
τ = n BIA
• Under the action of this torque, the plane of the coil rotates through an
angle θ before coming to rest. Due to the radial magnetic field, the plane
of the coil is always parallel to the direction of magnetic field. Thus at any
Position, the deflecting torque has constant magnitude. The rotation of the coil
produces a twist in the fibre which produces a restoring torque which is
directly proportional to the angle of deflection θ.
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τ θ
τ=kθ
Where k is the torque per unit twist (or torsional constant) of the suspension fiber.
• When the coil comes to rest i.e. when it attains equilibrium, the restoring
torque will balance the deflecting torque. So in equilibrium position of the
coil,
nBIA=kθ
∴I∝q
Advantages and
Disadvantages
Advantages of Moving Coil Galvanometers:
• They are not affected by strong magnetic field.
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Disadvantages of Moving Coil Galvanometers:
• The change in temperature causes a change in restoring torque.
Sensitivity = dθ / di
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The current in moving coil galvanometer is given by
• Increasing the area of the coil beyond limit makes the instrument bulky.
• Increase in the number of turns and area of the coil increases the load on
suspension fiber. Hence spring higher value of k should be used which
decreases the sensitivity of the galvanometer.
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• Decreasing the couple per unit twist of the spring leads to decrease in the
strength of the spring.
• As the expression of accuracy does not contain the terms n, A, B and k the
accuracy is independent of the number of turns of the coil, the area of the
coil, the magnetic induction and constant for the spring.
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Bibliography
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www.google.com/images
www.wikipedia.com
www.hemantmore.org.in
www.brainkart.com
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