Grade

XII Physics Assignment

Session 2019-20
1. Where on the surface of Earth is the angle of dip zero?
2. The vertical component of Earth's magnetic field at a place is 3 times the horizontal
component. What is the value of angle of dip at this place?
3. Where on the earth’s surface is the value of angle of dip maximum?
4. If the ratio of the horizontal component of earth’s magnetic field to the resultant
magnetic field at a place is 1/√2. What is the angle of dip at that palce?
5. If the horizontal and vertical components of earth ‘s magnetic field are equal at a place,
find the angle of dip?
6. What will be the path of a charged particle moving in a uniform magnetic field at any
arbitrary acute angle?
7. An electron and a proton, moving parallel to each other in the same direction with equal
momenta, enter a uniform magnetic field which is at right angles to their velocities.
Trace their trajectories in the magnetic field.
8. A charged particle moving in a uniform magnetic field penetrates a layer of lead and
thereby loses one half of its kinetic energy. How does the radius of curvature of its path
change?
9. What should be the orientation of a magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field so that
its potential energy is maximum?
10. What will be the angle of dip at a place on the equator?
11. What types of force is acting between two parallel wires carrying current in the same
direction?
12. What is the function of the radial magnetic field in the moving coil galvanometer?
13. Two parallel wires carrying currents in the same direction attract each other, while the
two beams of electrons travelling in the same direction repel each other. Give reason.
14. Why does a solenoid contract when a current is passed through it?
15. An electron moving with a velocity of 107 ms-1 enters a uniform magnetic field in the
same direction. What would be its trajectory in this field?
16. Two identical magnetic dipoles of magnetic moment 1 Am2 each are placed at a
separation of 2 m with their axes perpendicular to each other. What is the resultant
magnetic field at a point mid-way between the dipoles?
17. Magnets of magnetic moments M and 3 M are joined to form a cross. The combination
is suspended in a uniform magnetic field B. The magnetic moment M now makes an
angle θ with the field direction. Find the value of θ.

18. Calculate the torque acting on a magnet of length 20 cm and pole strength 2 x 10 -5Am,
placed in the Earth’s magnetic field of flux density 2 x 10 -5T, when (a) magnet is parallel
to the field (b) magnet is perpendicular to the field.
19. The horizontal component of earth’s magnetic field is 0.2 G and total magnetic field is
0.4 G. Find the angle of Dip.
20. The vertical component of earth’s magnetic field at a place is √3 times the horizontal
component. What is the value of angle of dip at this place?
21. A magnetizing field of 1600 A/m produces a magnetic flux of 2.4 x 10 -5Wb in a bar of
iron of cross section 0.2 cm2. Calculate permeability and susceptibility of the bar.
22. The maximum value of permeability of a metal is 0.126 Tm/A. Find the maximum
relative permeability and susceptibility.
23. A compass needle of magnetic moment 60 Am2pointing geographical north at a place
where the horizontal component of earth’s magnetic field is 40 mWb/m2,
experiences a torque of 1.2x10-3 Nm. What is the declination of the place?
24. A magnet was found to vibrate at a place with a time-period of T.A piece of brass of
same length, breadth and mass was placed over the magnet. What will be the new time-
period?
25. A straight wire of mass 200 g and length 1.5 m carries a current of 2 A. It is suspended in
mid-air by a uniform horizontal magnetic field. What is the magnitude of the field?
26. Two identical charge particle moving with the same speed enter a region of uniform
magnetic field. If one of these enters normal to the field direction and the other enters
along a direction at 300 with the field, what would be the ratio of their angular
frequencies.
27. A milli-ammeter whose resistance is 120 ohm has full scale deflection with a current of
5mA. How will you use it to measure maximum current of 100 A.
28. In the Bohr model of hydrogen atom, an electron revolves around the nucleus in a
circular orbit of radius 5.11 x 10-11 m at a frequency of 6.8 x 1015 Hz. What is the
magnetic field at the centre of the orbit?
29. A hollow cylindrical conductor of radii a and b carries a current I uniformly spread over
its cross section. Find the magnetic field B for points inside the body of the
conductor at a distance r from the axis.
30. A straight horizontal conducting rod of length 0.6 m and mass 60 g is suspended by two
vertical wires at its ends. A current of 5 A is set up in the rod through its wires. What
magnetic field should be set up normal to the conductor in order that the tension in the
wires is zero? What will be total tension in the wires if the direction of current is
reversed?

31. The following figure shows the variation of intensity of magnetization versus the applied
magnetic field intensity for two magnetic materials A and B. (i) Identify the materials.
(ii) For the material B, plot the variation of intensity of magnetization versus
temperature.
32. A magnetic dipole is under the influence of two magnetic fields. The angle between the
field direction is 60o and one of the field has a magnitude of 1.2 x 10-2 T. If the dipole
comes to stable equilibrium at an angle of 15o with this field, what is the magnitude of
the other field?
33. A long straight solid metal wire of radius ‘R’ carries a current ‘I’, uniformly distributed
over its circular cross section. Find the magnetic field at a distance ‘r’ from the
axis of the wire (a) inside and (b) outside the wire
34. A solenoid is 1m long and 3 cm in mean diameter. It has 5 layers of windings of 800
turns each and carries a current of 5 A. Find Magnetic Field Induction at the center of
the solenoid.
35. Find the value of magnetic field inside a hollow straight current carrying conductor at a
distance r from axis of the loop.
36. A rectangular loop of size 25 cm x 10 cm carrying a current of 15A is placed 2 cm away
from a long, straight conductor carrying a current of 25 A. What is the direction and
magnitude of the net Force acting on the loop?
37. A long straight conductor PQ, carrying a current of 60 A, is fixed horizontally. Another
long conductor XY is kept parallel to PQ at a distance of 4 mm, in air. Conductor XY
is free to move and carries a current ‘I’. Calculate the magnitude and direction of
current ‘I’ for which the magnetic repulsion just balances the weight of the conductor
XY.
38. A circular coil of 200 turns, radius 5 cm carries a current of 2.5 A. It is suspended
vertically in a uniform horizontal magnetic field of 0.25 T, with the plane of the coil
making an angle of 600 with the field lines. Calculate the magnitude of the torque that
must be applied on it to prevent it from turning.
39. A current is flowing in a circular coil of radius ‘r’ and magnetic field at its center is B0. At
what distance from the center on the axis of the coil, the magnetic field will be
B0/8?
40. The strength of magnetic induction at the center of a current carrying circular coil is B1
and at a point on its axis at a distance equal to its radius from the center is B2. Find
B1/B2.
41. A proton, alpha particle and deuteron are moving in circular paths with same kinetic
energies in the same magnetic fields. Find the ratio of their radii and time periods.

42. An electron moving with Kinetic Energy 25 keV moves perpendicular to a uniform
magnetic field of 0.2 mT. Calculate the time-period of rotation of electron in the
magnetic field.
43. A galvanometer coil has a resistance of 12 W and the meter shows full scale deflection
for a current of 3 mA. How will you convert the meter into a voltmeter of range 0 to 18
V?
44. A straight wire carries a current of 3 A. Calculate the magnitude of the magnetic field at
a point 10 cm away from the wire.
45. A circular coil of 25 turns and radius 6.0 cm, carrying a current of 10 A, is suspended
vertically in a uniform magnetic field of magnitude 1.2 T. The field lines run horizontally
in the plane of the coil. Calculate the force and the torque on the coil due to the
magnetic field. In which direction should a balancing torque be applied to prevent the
coil form turning?
46. A 100-turns coil kept in a magnetic field B = 0.05 Wb m-2, carries a current of 1 A, find
the torque acting on the coil.
47. Increasing the current sensitivity may not necessarily increase the voltage sensitivity of a
galvanometer. Justify.
48. A coil wrapped around a toroid has inner radius of 20.0 cm and an outer radius of 25.0
cm. If the wire wrapping makes 800 turns and carries a current of 12.0 A. What are the
maximum and minimum values of the magnitude field within the toroid?
49. A long straight solid conductor of radius 4 cm carries over its circular cross-section. Find
the magnetic field at a distance of 3 cm from the axis of the conductor.
50. A charge ‘q’ moving in a straight line is accelerated by a potential difference ’V’. It enters
a uniform magnetic field ‘B’ perpendicular to its path. Deduce in terms of V an
expression for the radius of the circular path in which it travels.