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Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction
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This book forms a part of the series “Your Personal Coach”. Like other books in this series, this book has been written
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(i) a text book must have continuity and flow in what it discusses.
(ii) nothing contributes more in understanding Physics than a good example.
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make the students learn the basic principles of Physics independently.
In this book we will explore the close linkage between electricity and magnetism which will help us understand the
nature of light (electromagnetic wave). The story that will evolve at the end will truly fascinate you.
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Magnetic Field
‘‘What magnetism is, no one knows. We can only think of it as a peculiar condition created in space by the motion of electricity.’’
–Sydney Evershed (1925)
1. INTRODUCTION pole of the magnet. When the north pole of one magnet is
brought near the north pole of another magnet, they repel.
More than 2000 years ago, certain stones (called lodestones) The same is true for a south pole placed near another south
were found in the coastal district of Magnesia, in ancient pole. However, opposite poles attract one another.
Greece. These stones had the unusual property of attracting Physicists have speculated for a long time about the
iron pieces. The term ‘magnet’ originated from the name existence of discrete magnetic charges (we can call them
‘Magnesia’. Magnets were first crafted into compasses and magnetic monopoles), just like positive and negative electric
used for navigation by the Chinese in the twelfth century. charges. But all our attempts to find tiny particles which
The subjects of electricity and magnetism developed will carry either a single north or a single south pole, has
almost independently till 1820, when a Danish physicist proved to be futile. If we go on cutting a magnet into many
Oersted discovered that an electric current exerts force on a small pieces, each small piece has its own north pole and
magnetic compass. Thereafter, a series of experiments and south pole. Even when one piece is one atom thick, there
discoveries established that electricity and magnetism are very are two poles. This suggests that the atoms, in a magnet,
closely related and it is not wise to study them separately. themselves are magnets.
Ampere proposed that electric currents are the source of Though we have never found an isolated magnetic pole
all magnetic phenomena. In 1867, Maxwell expressed that (i.e., a magnetic charge), we often think of a bar magnet as
both the phenomena—electricity and magnetism—go hand having two magnetic charges separated by a distance. The
in hand and one can produce another. The subject matter is north pole is assumed to carry a positive magnetic charge
now appropriately known as ‘electromagnetism’. (+m) and the south pole is assumed to have a negative
In this book we will explore the close linkage between magnetic charge (–m). The unit of magnetic charge (or, pole
the electricity and magnetism. In this chapter we will study strength) is A–m. The distance between the two poles of a bar
about the magnetic force on a moving charge and a current magnet is 0.84 times the geometrical length of the magnet.
carrying wire. But before we do so, we will introduce A bar magnet is essentially a magnetic dipole.
ourselves to magnetic field produced by a bar magnet.
2. BAR MAGNET
A magnet exerts force on another magnet, even without lg
touching it. We can say that a magnet creates a magnetic l = magnetic length, lg = geometrical length, l = 0.84 lg
field in its surrounding and this field exerts force on other
magnets. The dipole moment of a bar magnet is defined to be a
Simplest form of a magnet is a bar magnet. It has two vector quantity directed from the south pole to the north pole
ends of opposite nature. When it is suspended freely by tying of the magnet. Its magnitude is
a string at its centre, it acts like a compass. One end which M = ml (1)
points northward is called the north pole of the magnet. The where m is pole strength and l is the magnetic length.
other end, which points southward, is known as the south A magnet with large magnetic dipole moment (M) produces
P is a point at a distance x from the centre of the magnet, Field at P is vector sum of BN and BS. It is easy to see
on its axis. Distance of P from the positive magnetic charge that components of the two fields along y direction will
(i.e., the north pole) is (x – d) and its distance from the cancel out. Their components in x direction add.
negative charge is (x + d).
Field at P is directed opposite to the dipole moment vector
Field at P due to the north pole is ( M ) of the dipole and its magnitude is
µ m 2µ 0 m
BN = 0 directed towards right. B = BN sin q + BS sin q = sin q
4π ( x – d ) 2 4π r 2
µ 2md
Field at P due to the south pole is = 0
4π r 3
µ m
BS = 0 directed towards left. µ 2md
4π ( x + d ) 2 or, B = 0
4π (d + x 2 )3/ 2
2
4π
For x >> d,
µ m(4 xd )
\ B= 0 µ M
4π ( x 2 – d 2 ) 2 B 0 3 (7)
4π x
µ0 2 Mx
or, B = [∵ M = m(2d)](4) Again, compare this result with that for an electric dipole.
4π ( x 2 – d 2 ) 2
When x d, the above result can be approximated as Field at a general point
µ 2M Consider a point P at a distance r from the centre (O) of a
B 0 (5)
4π x 3 magnetic dipole (i.e., a bar magnet). The line OP makes an
angle q with the axis of the dipole. Let r >> d, where 2d is
Compare this result with the expression of electric field
distance between the poles.
due to an electric dipole at a point on its axis.
B
µ0 M B
or, B = 1 + 3cos 2 θ (10)
4π r 3
The angle made by B with the line OP is given by ext
B 1
tan a = θ = tan q
Br 2
1
⇒ a = tan–1 tan θ (11) U90° = 0
2
For slowly rotating the dipole text = tB.
2.5 Torque on a bar magnet in a uniform magnetic
field Magnetic torque on it is tB = MB sin q
Consider a bar magnet of magnetic length 2d and pole We wish to rotate the dipole slowly, we must apply an
strength m placed in a uniform magnetic field B. Angle equal torque in opposite direction.
between the direction of the field and the magnetic axis is q. text = tB = MB sin q
Work done by the external agent in rotating the dipole
further by dq is
d Wext = text · dq = MB sin q dq
Total work done by the agent in rotating the dipole from
initial angle q = 90° to final angle q is
sin
θ θ
Wext = ∫
90°
dWext = MB ∫ sin θ d θ
90°
Force acting on the north pole is mB in the direction of or, Wext = – MB (cos q – cos 90º) = – MB cos q
the external field and the force on the south pole is mB in
This work done is change in potential energy of the
a direction opposite to the field. These two forces form a
dipole.
couple and their torque is
Uq – U90º= – MB cos q
t = mBd sin q + mBd sin q
∵ U90º = 0
or, t = 2mdB sin q
or, t = MB sin q
\ Uq = – MB cos q
M = m(2d) = Magnetic dipole moment.
= – M ⋅ B (13)
The torque tries to rotate the dipole so as to align it parallel
to the direction of the field. In vector notation, we can write
Recall that the potential
energy of an electric dipole in
the expression of the torque as
an electric field is – P ⋅ E .
τ = M × B (12)
You must compare this to the expression of torque on an NOTES
electric dipole placed in a uniform electric field ( τ = P × E ) . 1. The above description of a magnet with two opposite magnetic
charges is a useful model in understanding its magnetic
behaviour. In practice, nobody has ever found an isolated
magnetic charge.
D1
Solution Solution
Concepts Concepts
(i) The magnetic field obeys the principle of (i) In practice, the magnetic poles are not exactly at
superposition. the geometric ends of a magnet. But the question
(ii) Field due to the dipole D1 is along x direction at asks us to assume so.
point O. (ii) Field at P due to the south pole is horizontal along
(iii) Field due to the dipole D2 is along y direction PS . Field at P due to the north pole is along NP . We
(antiparallel to the dipole moment vector of D2). will find its horizontal component and then add it
vectorially to the horizontal field produced by the
Field at O due to dipole D1 is south pole.
µ 0 2M (iii) We will assume the pole strength to be m and write
B1 = (along x) m (2d) = M
4π x 3
YOUR TURN
Q.1 In what way are magnetic poles very different from Q.5 A bar magnet of length 10 cm has a magnetic dipole
electric charges? moment of 1.0 J/T. Find the magnetic field produced by
Q.2 In what way are magnetic field lines different from the magnet at a point on its axis which is at a distance of
electrostatic field lines? 10 cm from its centre.
Q.3 A bar magnet has a geometric length of 10 cm and its Q.6 In the last question, find the field on the perpendicular
pole strength is 12A–m. Find the magnetic dipole moment bisector of the magnet at a distance of 10 cm from its centre.
of the magnet. [Take (1.25)3/2 = 1.4]
Q.4 Which property of a magnet has a unit of J/T? Q.7 In which position the potential energy of a magnetic
dipole is maximum when it is placed in a uniform magnetic
field?
of force must be perpendicular to v as
(ii) The direction
well as B . If you keep your note book horizontal,
the magnetic field is directed perpendicularly into
it. Force vector will be in the horizontal plane
of
your note book so that it is perpendicular to B . The
force vector is also perpendicular to the velocity
vector.
Stretch your right hand palm along the direction of The × in the figure indicates the direction of magnetic
velocity so that the direction of field ( B ) is outward to field vector. This symbol × represents a direction into the
your palm. You must be able to curl your fingers from plane of the figure.
the direction of v to the direction of B . The stretched
thumb gives the direction of the force.
The
direction of force on a positive charge is along
v × B . The diagram given here
will help you recall how
to get the direction of v × B using the right hand rule.
Remember that force on a negative charge will be directed
opposite to the direction of v × B
Because the magnetic force on a moving charge is always
perpendicular to the velocity of the charge, the force can
only deflect the direction of motion of the charge and will
never change its speed. Magnetic force on a moving charge Force ( F ) must be in the plane of the figure so that it
never performs work. is perpendicular to B . The force must also be perpendicular
to v . This means it will be along the line AC. Now, use
Example 4 A positively charged particle is moving
right hand rule. stretch your right hand palm along v so
horizontally in north-east direction with a velocity of that you can curl your fingers downwards, towards B. The
2 × 105 m/s. It enters into a region where exists a uniform, thumb points towards A. Therefore, the force is in north-
vertically downward, magnetic field of strength 0.02T. west direction.
Charge on the particle is q = 3.2×10–19 C. Find the direction
Magnitude of the force is
and magnitude of the magnetic force that acts on the particle.
F = qvB sin90º = 3.2 × 10–19 × 2 × 105 × 0.02
Solution = 1.28 × 10–15 N
Concepts
(i) Velocity of the particle is horizontal and the NOTE
magnetic field is vertically downward. Angle If the particle has a negative charge, it will experience force in
between the two is 90°. Magnitude of the magnetic south-west direction.
force on the particle will be F = qvB sin90º = qvB.
YOUR TURN
Q.8. A particle having charge q is projected towards north Q.10. A charged particle is projected vertically up in
in a region where there is a magnetic field in the south a region where a horizontal magnetic field exists in north
direction. Field strength is B. Find the force on the particle. direction. In which direction will the charge deflect (east or
Q.9. A charged particle having mass M = 1 mg and west) if it is (a) positive, (b) Negative?
charge q = 1µC is projected in a magnetic field B = 1mT. Q.11. A negative charge – q enters a region with velocity
Find the maximum possible acceleration of the charge if its
v vo iˆ + v0 ˆj . A magnetic field B = B0 kˆ exists in the region.
=
speed is 1 ×106 ms–1 Find the magnetic force on the particle.
Q.12. Write the dimensional formula of magnetic field (B).
4.1
Circular motion of a charged particle in a The time period of revolution can be written as
magnetic field 2π 2πm
T = = (18)
Imagine that there is a uniform magnetic field (B) directed ω qB
into the plane of this page. A charged particle, having mass
The frequency of circular motion is
m and charge q, is projected from point A. The particle is
given a velocity v in the plane of this page (see figure). In 1 qB
f = = (19)
whichever direction you project the particle in the plane of T 2 πm
this page, its velocity will be perpendicular to the direction
Note that the time period (or the frequency) of circular
of the magnetic field.
motion is independent of the speed of the particle. Whatever be
the speed, the particle takes same amount of time to complete
C the circle. Actually, if you double the speed of the particle, the
radius of circular path doubles (See equation 15). This means
B that doubling the speed doubles the circumference. Obviously,
time period will not change.
YOUR TURN
Q.13 Alpha particles are projected with a speed of Q.18 A particle having mass m and charge +q is projected
10 kms–1 in a direction perpendicular to a uniform magnetic with a velocity v = v0 iˆ , from the origin of the co-ordinate
field of magnitude 1.0 T. Find the radius of the circular path system, into a region of uniform magnetic field B = − B0 kˆ .
and frequency of revolution of the particle. Find the time after which its acceleration will be in negative
Q.14 A particle having charge q and mass m is accelerated y direction for the first time.
through a potential difference of V and then made to enter
a uniform magnetic field B. Find the radius of the circular
trajectory of the particle if the particle moves perpendicular
to the field.
Q.15 A proton enters perpendicularly into a uniform
magnetic field with a velocity of 4 ×106 ms–1. The magnetic
field exists in a region that is just less than 10 cm wide in the
direction of initial velocity of the proton. Find the angular
deviation in the path of the proton caused by the field. Take
the charge on the proton to be e = 1.6 × 10–19 C and its Q.19 A beam of charged particles enter perpendicularly
mass to be m = 1.6 × 10–27 kg. Magnitude of the magnetic into a magnetic field. The beam
field is B = 0.4T. contains neutrons, electrons,
Q.16 Redo the question in example 7 considering that the protons and alpha particles. The
charge on the particle is negative. particles follow the tracks A, B,
Q.17 A charged particle, when projected in uniform C and D as shown in figure.
electric field, moves on a curved path. The same particle Which track corresponds to
when projected perpendicularly into a uniform magnetic which particle?
field, again moves in a curved path. What is the nature of
the two paths?
4.2 Helical path of a charged particle in a magnetic Due to the velocity component v⊥ the particle will
field experience a force in the magnetic field and will describe a
circle in yz plane (or a plane parallel to the yz plane). The
Consider a region having a uniform magnetic field of radius of this circle and the time period of circular motion
strength B directed along positive x direction. A particle is given by
having charge q and mass m is projected with a velocity mv⊥ mv sin θ
R = qB = (20)
v making an angle q with the direction of the field. To qB
understand the motion of the particle, let’s divide its velocity 2πm
into two components. T= (21)
qB
The particle has another velocity component v|| which
remains constant. Due to this velocity component the particle
continuously moves in x direction.
By superimposing the motions due to v⊥ and v||, one
can easily see that the particle will describe a helical path.
v|| = component of velocity in the direction of field = The radius of the helix is given by equation 20. The time
vcosq needed for the particle to rotate by 360º in yz plane is the
v⊥ = component of velocity in a direction perpendicular time period of the motion and it is given by equation 21.
to the direction of the field = v sinq Carefully understand the figure on the next page with the
comments written under it.
The figure below shows the path for one rotation. The
second diagram shows how the path will look like, to an
observer location on the z-axis. The first diagram shows that the
particle rises from O to A along the z direction as it completes
one rotation.
z
y
z
(a) Find the time after which the proton will touch the
z axis for the first time after entering into the field
region.
(b) At what distance from the origin will the proton
touch the z-axis for the first time?
It is given that charge on a proton is q = This figure shows the path in xy plane as seen by an eye
1.6 × 10–19 C and its mass is m = 1.6 × 10–27 kg. located on the z-axis. The particle is coming out of
the paper as it rotates.
Solution
Concepts (a) Time of motion from O to A = time period of the
(i) Field is in z direction. The velocity component in helical path
z direction is v|| = 2 × 104 m/s. The velocity 2πm 2 × 3.14 × 1.6 × 10 –27
or, T = =
component perpendicular to the field is qB 1.6 × 10 –19 × 0.3
v⊥ = vx 2 + v y 2 = ( 2 + 2 ) × 104 = 2 × 104 m/s. = 2.1 ×10–7 s
(b) Distance OA = Pitch
(ii) The particle will move in a helical path and will
= T · v|| = 2.1 × 10–7 × 2 × 104
touch the z-axis after completing one full rotation
= 4.2 ×10–3 m = 4.2 mm
FINANCING MATERNITY
You see, yesterday only a mother counted her jewels. To-day
states count them too. Even Jimmie Smith in, we will say, England,
who before the war might have been regarded as among the least of
these little ones, has become the object of his country’s concern.
Jimmie came screaming into this troublous world in a borough of
London’s East End, where there were already so many people that
you didn’t seem to miss Jimmie’s father and some of the others who
had gone to the war. Jimmie belongs to one of those 300,000
London families who are obliged to live in one and two room
tenements. Five or six, perhaps it was five, little previous brothers
and sisters waited on the stair landing outside the door until the
midwife in attendance ushered them in to welcome the new arrival.
Now Jimmie is the stuff from which soldiers are made, either soldiers
of war or soldiers of industry. And however you look at the future, his
country’s going to need Jimmie. He is entered in the great new
ledger which has been opened by his government. The Notification
of Births Act, completed by Parliament in 1915, definitely put the
British baby on a business basis. Every child must now, within thirty-
six hours of its advent, be listed by the local health authorities.
Jimmie was.
And he was thereby automatically linked up with the great national
child saving campaign. Since then, so much as a fly in his milk is a
matter of solicitude to the borough council. If he sneezes, it’s heard
in Westminster. And it’s at least worried about there. Though all the
King’s councillors and all the King’s men don’t yet quite know what
they’re to do with the many problems of infancy and complications of
pregnancy with which they are confronted, now that these are
matters for state attention.
A first and most natural conclusion that they reached, as equally
has been the case in other lands, was that the illness of babies was
due to the ignorance of mothers. Well, some of it is. And that has
proven a very good place to begin. For every one else, from a
plumber to a professor, there has always been training. Only a
mother was supposed to find out how by herself. Now she no longer
has to. The registration of Jimmie’s birth itself brought the Health
Visitor, detailed from the public health department of the borough, for
her first municipal call on his mother. She found Mrs. Smith up and
trying to make gruel for herself. After serious expostulation, the
maternity patient was induced to return to bed, where she belonged.
Gruel, the white-faced woman who sank back on the pillow insisted,
was easy. Why, probably she should not have minded it at all. Only
that day before yesterday she had gotten up to do a bit of wash and
had fainted at the tub. She hadn’t seemed to be just right since.
Neither had the baby.
The visitor leaned across the bed and removed a “pacifier” from
the baby’s mouth. “But he has to have it,” said the mother, “he cries
so much. All my children had it.” Looking round at them, the visitor
saw that it was true. Each exhibited some form of the facial
malformation that substantiated the statement. And one was deaf
from the adenoid growth. And one was not quite bright. This was, of
course, no time for a medical lecture beyond Mrs. Smith’s
comprehension. But the effort was made to impress her with the
simple statement of fact that a pacifier really was harmful for a child.
There were inquiries about the baby’s feeding. No, of course, it was
not being done scientifically. Well, the mother was told, if he were fed
at regular intervals he would be in better condition not to cry all the
time. And of course she herself must not get tired. It was Mrs.
Smith’s first introduction to the practice of mothercraft as an art. At
the school for mothers recently opened in the next square, where the
Health Visitor had her enrolled within a month, her regular instruction
began.
The schools for mothers are now being established as rapidly as
possible throughout the country. It is not an absolutely new
enterprise. The first one in England, from which all the others are
being copied, had been started in London by an American woman
who had married an Englishman, Mrs. Alys Russell, a graduate of
Bryn Mawr. Women recognised at once the value of the plan. It was
only a question of popularising and paying for it. This the war has
accomplished. Government will now defray 50 per cent. of the cost
of a school under the operation of either voluntary agencies or
borough authorities. Already 800 schools have been opened. Some
of the most successful are at Birmingham, Sheffield and Glasgow,
under municipal direction. Parliament, you see, by financing it has
established the school for mothers as a national institution.
The “infant consultation” is the feature about which its activities
centre. Jimmie was taken regularly for the doctor’s inspection and
advice and there is on file there at the school a comprehensive
record in which is entered every fact of his family history and
environment and his own physical condition, with the phenomena of
its changes from week to week. The weekly weighing indicated very
accurately his progress. And the week that his weary mother’s milk
failed, the scales reported it. The modified milk was carefully
prescribed but the next week’s weighing indicated that Mrs. Smith
wasn’t getting the ingredients together right. The Health Visitor was
assigned to go home with her and show her just how. Like that,
Jimmie was constantly supervised. When the doctor at the
consultation, tapping the little distended abdomen with skilled
fingers, announced, “This baby is troubled with colic,” Mrs. Smith
said he had been having it a good deal lately. Well, a little
questioning corrected the difficulty. The trouble was pickles, and he
never had them after that. Also he never had the summer complaint,
which the former Smith babies always had in September.
You see, there is no proper cupboard at Jimmie’s house. There is
only the recess beside the chimney, and flies come straight from the
manure heap at the back of the house to the milk pitcher on the
shelf. Mrs. Smith didn’t know that flies mattered. She knows now,
and at the school she has learned that you protect the baby from
summer complaint by covering the pitcher with a muslin cloth. She
also has learned how to make the most ingenious cradle that ever
was contrived. It’s constructed from a banana box, but it perfectly
well serves the purpose for which it was designed. That Jimmie
should sleep alone, is one of the primary directions at the school. Of
course, it is clear that this is hygienically advisable, and there is
another reason: these crowded London areas are so crowded that
even the one bed the family usually possesses is also overcrowded.
With some five other children occupying it with their mother, there
was danger that Jimmie would some night be smothered.
“Overlaying,” as it is called, is the reason assigned in the death
certificate for the loss of a good many London babies.