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PHY 103 Practice Problem Set –9 IITK /ynm May 28, 2021

1. Provide qualitative reasoning:

a) When you switch on a current in an application designed for steady operation,
what practical effects do you think determine the time taken for steady current
to flow?
b) Like currents attract. Hence, would you expect the current in a uniform
conducting cylinder should flow along the central axis of the cylinder?
c) In a hand-held metal detector used by security personnel, the equipment looks
for change in magnetic flux. What is the change in flux that it is searching for
due to?

2. A square loop of side a is mounted on a vertical shaft and rotated with a constant angular
velocity 𝜔𝑘̂ around the vertical axis with a uniform horizontal magnetic field 𝐵 ⃗ = 𝐵0 𝑖̂ .
Find the emf as a function od time if suitable arrangement is done to tap it on the
mounting stand (simplest ac generator).

3. A very thin wire is bent to make a long hairpin. Neglecting contributions from the bent
ends and the body of the wire itself, find the self-inductance. If needed, you can assume
the radius of the wire a to be very small.

𝑙
d

4. Explicitly show reciprocity of mutual inductance by taking a special case of coplanar

concentric circular loops of radius a and b such that a<<b.

5. A long cable carries current in one direction uniformly distributed over its circular cross
section. Assume that the current is allowed to return along the surface with a thin
insulating sheath separating the two currents. Find the self-inductance per unit length
using the energy method.

6. Case Study 9.1 : Electrodynamics of Superconductors

Since the discovery of ceramic superconductors (Bednorz and Muller, 1986) it is common
to demonstrate its superconductive property by making a magnet float on top of such a
material. This case study is about this phenomenon based on Meissner effect.

In perfect conductors, the conductivity is infinity, and hence there is no field

inside and any charge can only reside outside. In fact, we were assuming perfect
conductors all along in electrostatics.
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a) Show that the magnetic field is constant inside any perfect conductor.
b) Show that the magnetic flux through a perfectly conducting loop is constant.
c) A superconductor is a perfect conductor with the additional property that the
constant magnetic field is zero. Show that the current can only be on the
surface.
d) In typical demonstration of floating magnet experiment, why does the
experimenter use liquid nitrogen?
e) If a spherical superconductor of radius a is held in a uniform magnetic field
⃗ = 𝐵0 𝑘̂, find the induced surface current density.
𝐵
f) Now take a large slab of superconductor and consider it as occupying all space
𝑧 ≤ 0. Now bring a magnet which can be considered as a perfect dipole 𝑚 ⃗⃗ at a
height z above the superconductor. Show that the problem can be treated by
image method by placing an identical dipole at -z.
i) How should the image dipole be oriented (point to +z or -z)?
ii) Find the force on the magnet due to the induced currents, and hence
find the height h where the magnet floats if its mass is M.
iii) Determine the induced current on the surface of the superconductor
(in x-y plane with r as the distance from the origin) using eh boundary
condition on the tangential component of 𝐵 ⃗ . Show that
3𝑚 𝑟ℎ
⃗ =−
𝐾 𝜑̂
2𝜋(𝑟 2 + ℎ2 )5/2

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