Midterm #3 Review

1. A metal crossbar of mass m rides on a parallel pair of long conducting rails separated by
a distance L and connected to a device that supplies constant current I to the circuit.
Assume that the rails are frictionless but tilted upward so that they make an angle
with the horizontal, and with the current source attached to the low end of the rails.

The circuit is in a region with a uniform magnetic field B whose direction is vertically
downward. (a) What minimum value of B is needed to keep the bar from sliding down
the rails? (b) What is the acceleration of the bar if B is twice the value found in Part (a)?
2. A long straight wire carries a current of 20.0 A. A rectangular coil that has two sides
parallel to the straight wire has sides that are 5.00-cm long and 10.0-cm long (longer
side is parallel to original wire). The side nearest to the wire is 2.00 cm from the wire.
The coil carries a current of 5.00 A. (a) Find the force on each segment of the
rectangular coil due to the current in the long straight wire. (b) What is the net force on
the coil?
3. Earths magnetic field is about 0.600 G at the magnetic poles, and is pointed vertically
downward at the magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere. If the magnetic field were
due to an electric current circulating in a loop at the radius of the inner iron core of
Earth (approximately 1300 km), (a) what would be the magnitude of the current
required? (b) What direction would this current havethe same as Earths spin, or
opposite? Explain your answer.
4. In Figure 27-55, one current is 8.0 A into the page, the other current is 8.0 A out of the

page, and each curve is a circular path. (a) Find B d for each path, assuming that
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each integral is to be evaluated in the counterclockwise direction. (b) Which path, if any,
can be used to find the combined magnetic field of these currents?
5. A rigid wire is in the shape of a square of edge-length L. The square has mass m and the
wire carries current I. The square lies on flat horizontal surface in a region where there is
a magnetic field of magnitude B that is parallel to two edges of the square. What is the
minimum value of B so that one edge of the square will lift off the surface?
6. A proton that has a speed equal to 1.00 106 m/s enters a region that has a uniform
magnetic field that has a magnitude of 0.800 T and points into the page, as shown in
Figure 26-35. The proton enters the region at an angle = 60. Find the exit angle and
the distance d.