Group Problem Set #16 Physics 112-4 Fall 2011 P1
Group Problem Set #16 Physics 112-4 Fall 2011 p1
Group problem #16: Magnetic force and magnetic fields
While studying intensely for your physics final you decide to take a break and listen to your stereo. As you unwind, your thoughts drift to newspaper stories about the dangers of household magnetic fields on the body. You examine your stereo wires and find that most of them are coaxial cable, a thin conducting wire at the center surrounded by an insulator, which is in turn surrounded by a conducting shell. The inner wire and the conducting shell are both part of the circuit with the same current (I) passing through both, but in opposite directions. As a way to practice for your physics final you decide to calculate the magnetic field in the insulator, and outside the coaxial cable as a function of the current and the distance from the center of the cable. As an additional challenge to yourself, you calculate what the magnetic field would be (as a function of the current and the distance from the center of the cable) inside the outer conducting shell of the coaxial cable. For this you assume that the inner radius of the conducting shell is R1 and the outer radius is R2.
You are continually having troubles with the old-model Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) screen you are using for your computer and wonder if it is due to magnetic fields from the power lines running in your building. A blueprint of the building shows that the nearest power line is as shown to the right. Your CRT screen is located at point P. Calculate the magnetic field at P as a function of the current I and the distances a and b. Segments BC and AD are arcs of concentric circles. Segments AB and DC are straight-line segments. /For your J-term internship, you are working for a company that makes to order devices used to generate prescribed magnetic fields. You have a spool of thin wire that can handle a maximum current of 0.50 A. Since your boss knows you took Physics, he wants you to determine the following: If you wind the wire into a loop-like coil 20 cm in diameter, how many turns should the coil have if the magnetic field as its center is to be 2.3 mT at this maximum current? What will the magnetic field be 0.23m along the axis perpendicular to plane of the center of the coil?
You have been hired as a consultant for a company that examines the effect of magnetic fields on the surrounding environment. A power line carries a 300A current toward magnetic south and is suspended 10 feet above the ground. The horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field is 0.24 G at the height of the power line. You have been asked to determine what the total magnetic field is at ground level and which direction does it point. You decide to approximate the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field as pointing south.