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Chapter 29 Problem 29.3

Question

Search Coils and Credit Cards. One practical way to measure magnetic field strength uses a small, closely wound coil called a search coil. The coil is initially held with its plane perpendicular to a magnetic field. The coil is then either quickly rotated a quarter-turn about a diameter or quickly pulled out of the field. (a) Derive the equation relating the total charge Q that flows through a search coil to the magnetic-field magnitude B. The search coil has N turns, each with area A, and the flux through the coil is decreased from its initial maximum value to zero in a time \(\Delta t\). The resistance of the coil is R, and the total charge is \(Q=I \Delta t\), where I is the average current induced by the change in flux. (b) In a credit card reader, the magnetic strip on the back of a credit card is rapidly “swiped” past a coil within the reader. Explain, using the same ideas that underlie the operation of a search coil, how the reader can decode the information stored in the pattern of magnetization on the strip. (c) Is it necessary that the credit card be “swiped” through the reader at exactly the right speed? Why or why not?

Solution

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Part (a)

The expression for the emf induced in the coil is given by,

                                                                 

Here,  is the initial magnetic flux,  is the final magnetic flux, and  is the change in time.

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Title Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford
ISBN 9780321696861

Search Coils and Credit Cards. One practical way to

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