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A compass needle free to turn in a horizontal plane is placed at thecentre of circular coil of 30 turns and radius 12 cm. The coil is in avertical plane making an angle of 45° with the magnetic meridian.When the current in the coil is 0.35 A, the needle points west toeast.(a) Determine the horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic field at the location.(b) The current in the coil is reversed, and the coil is rotated aboutits vertical axis by an angle of 90° in the anticlockwise senselooking from above. Predict the direction of the needle. Take themagnetic declination at the places to be zero. |
| Answer» A compass needle free to turn in a horizontal plane is placed at thecentre of circular coil of 30 turns and radius 12 cm. The coil is in avertical plane making an angle of 45° with the magnetic meridian.When the current in the coil is 0.35 A, the needle points west toeast.(a) Determine the horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic field at the location.(b) The current in the coil is reversed, and the coil is rotated aboutits vertical axis by an angle of 90° in the anticlockwise senselooking from above. Predict the direction of the needle. Take themagnetic declination at the places to be zero. | |