The Solenoid and the Toroid

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The Solenoid and the Toroid: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Magnetic Field Due to a Solenoid Using Ampere's Law, Magnetic Field on the Axis of a Current Carrying Solenoid & Magnetic Field at One End on the Axis of a Current Carrying Solenoid etc.

Important Questions on The Solenoid and the Toroid

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Using Ampere’s circuital law,obtain an expression for the magnetic field along the axis of a current carrying solenoid of length l and having N number of turns.

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A long metallic wire is cut into two equal pieces. Two circular coils are made of them. One with radius R1, has one turn and the other with radius R2 has two turns. They are connected in series to an electrical circuit. The ratio of magnetic induction at the centre of the wires is 

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What is the formula for magnetic field for a long solenoid?

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The current required to be passed through a solenoid of 15 cm length and 60 turns in order to demagnetise a bar magnet of magnetic intensity 2.4×103 A m1 is ________ A.

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The magnetic intensity at the centre of a long current carrying solenoid is found to be 1.6 ×103 A m-1. If the number of turns is 8 per cm, then the current flowing through the solenoid is ______A.

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A linear solenoid is made of a copper wire of diameter 0.4 mm. It has a length of 10 cm, diameter 1 cm and 1000 turns. If the two ends of the solenoid is connected to a battery of emf 2 V and current is sent through it, determine the magnetic field produced at the mid-point on the axis of the solenoid. Resistivity of copper = 1.76×10-8 Ω m

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A circular coil of radius 5 cm and having 100 turns is made of an insulated copper wire of diameter 0.4 mm. If current is sent through it by connecting its two ends with a battery of emf 2 V, what will be the magnetic field produced at its centre? Resistivity of copper: = 1.76×10-8 Ω m

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A toroid of n turns, mean radius R and cross-sectional radius a carries current I. It is placed on a horizontal table taken as xy-plane. Its magnetic moment m _______

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A coil wrapped around toroid has inner radius of 20 cm and an outer radius of 25 cm. If the wire wrapping makes 800 turns and carries a current of 12 A. The maximum and minimum values of the magnetic field with in the toroid are _______

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The magnetic field inside a long solenoid is

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A long solenoid contains another coaxial solenoid whose radius R is half of its own. Their coils have the same number of turns per unit length and initially both carry no current. At the same instant current start increasing linearly with time in both solenoid. At any moment the current flowing in the inner coil is twice as large as that in the outer one and their directions are the same. The ratio of the magnetic field at r<R to R<r<2 R is :

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When the number of turns in a toroidal coil is doubled, then the value of magnetic flux density will become,

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The mean radius of a toroid is 10 cm and a number of turns are 500. If the current flowing through it is 0.1 A. Then, the value of magnetic field (in Tesla) for toroid:-

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An infinitely long solenoid of radius a =5πcm and 10 turns cm-1 is placed such that its axis of symmetry lies along the X-axis. A current I is flowing through the solenoid ( X means that I is flowing into and · means it is flowing out of the page). A straight infinite wire with current 25 I is placed parallel to the X-axis at a distance a2 away from the center. Which of the following gives the direction of net magnetic field at the origin?

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A long solenoid has 200 turns per cm and carries a current i. The magnetic field at its centre is 6.28×10-2 Wb m-2. Another long solenoid has 100 turns per cm and it carries a current i3. The value of the magnetic field at its centre is α×10-2  Wb m-2. Write the value of α, where   is the greatest integer function.

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A straight solenoid of length 50 cm, having 100 turns carries a current of 2.5 A. The magnetic field at one end of the solenoid is ×10-4 T

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Mean radius of a toroid is10 cm and number of turns are 500. If current flowing through it is 0.1 ampere then value of magnetic field (in tesla) for toroid:-

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A long solenoid has 100 turns/meter and a current of 3.5 A is flowing through it. If it is filled with material of relative permeability μr=20 then
magnetic field within the solenoid will be?

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Ratio of magnetic field produced at centre & end points of long solenoid is

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The centres of the turns of a toroid form a circle with a radius of 14.0 cm. The cross-sectional area of each turn is 3.00 cm2. It is wound with 5278 turns of fine wire, and the wire carries a current of 4.00 A. The core is filled with a paramagnetic material of magnetic susceptibility 2.90×10-4. What would be the magnitude of the magnetic field within the substance?