Magnetic Fields Due to Currents Chapter 29. Remember the wire?

Magnetic Fields Due to Magnetic Fields Due to Currents Currents

Chapter 29Chapter 29

Remember the wire?

Try to remember…

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Magnetic Field of a Straight Wire

We intimated via magnets that the Magnetic field associated with a straight wire seemed to vary with 1/d.

We can now PROVE this!

From the Past

Using Magnets

Right-hand rule: Grasp the element in your right hand with your extended thumb pointing in the direction of the current. Your fingers will then naturally curl around in the direction of the magnetic field lines due to that element.

Let’s Calculate the FIELD

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Force Between Two Current Carrying Straight Parallel Conductors

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Remember GAUSS’S LAW??

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Gauss’s Law Made calculations easier than

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Applied to situations of HIGH SYMMETRY.

Gaussian SURFACE had to be defined which was consistent with the geometry.

AMPERE’S Law is compared to Gauss’ Law for Magnetism!

AMPERE’S LAWby SUPERPOSITION:

We will do a LINE INTEGRATIONAround a closed path or LOOP.

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USE THE RIGHT HAND RULE IN THESE CALCULATIONS

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Surface Integral

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Field Around a Long Straight Wire

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Apply Ampere’s law only to highly symmetrical situations.

Superposition works. Two wires can be treated separately

and the results added (VECTORIALLY!) The individual parts of the calculation

can be handled (usually) without the use of vector calculations because of the symmetry.

THIS IS SORT OF LIKE GAUSS’s LAW

#79 The figure below shows a cross section of an infinite conducting sheet carrying a current per unit x-length of l; the current emerges perpendicularly out of the page. (a) Use the Biot–Savart law and symmetry to show that for all points P above the sheet, and all points P´ below it, the magnetic field B is parallel to the sheet and directed as shown. (b) Use Ampere's law to find B at all points P and P´.

FIRST PART

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A Physical Solenoid

Inside the Solenoid

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solenoid is ZERO!

More on Long Solenoid

Field is ZERO!

Field is ZERO

Field looks UNIFORM

The real thing…..

Weak Field

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Finite Length

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Creation of Uniform Magnetic Field Region

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Two Coils

“Real” Helmholtz Coils

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15.  A wire with current i=3.00 A is shown in Fig.29-46. Two semi-infinite straight sections, both tangent to the same circle, are connected by a circular arc that has a central angle θ and runs along the circumference of the circle. The arc and the two straight sections all lie in the same plane. If B=0 at the circle's center, what is θ?

38.  In Fig. 29-64, five long parallel wires in an xy plane are separated by distance d=8.00 cm , have lengths of 10.0 m, and carry identical currents of 3.00 A out of the page. Each wire experiences a magnetic force due to the other wires. In unit-vector notation, what is the net magnetic force on (a) wire 1, (b) wire 2, (c) wire 3, (d) wire 4, and (e) wire 5?