CONCLUSION

Our objective on the current balance experiment was to study the

magnetic forces produced by electric currents in straight, parallel
wires at a separation. Also, we used a null method that helped us to
determine the force between the two current carrying wires to
measure the permeability of the air.

We plot a graph of F vs. I2. Found the slope of the straight graph to
be 0.0002 and we used the value of the slope to find the permeability
of the air as 1.07x10-5 with an percent error of 751%.

The value of the vacuum permeability is 1.2567 x 10 -6 and if we

compare to the permeability of the air found using the graph (F vs. I
2
), we find a difference of 0.0042%.

One cause of the imprecision in our experiment is the incapacity of

the apparatus in giving us certainty. In this experiment we had to
measure by a certain distance using a telescope, a mirror and a ruler
the distance between the two parallel wires. And as everyone knows
we are exposed to human mistakes. The experiment would be more
appropriate if there was an apparatus that could measure by
themselves the distance between the two wires.