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Chapter 27 Problem 41E

Question

A thin, 50.0-cm-long metal bar with mass 750 g rests on, but is not attached to, two metallic supports in a uniform 0.450-T magnetic field, as shown in Fig. E27.41. A battery and a 25.0-\(\Omega\) resistor in series are connected to the supports. (a) What is the highest voltage the battery can have without breaking the circuit at the supports? (b) The battery voltage has the maximum value calculated in part (a). If the resistor suddenly gets partially short-circuited, decreasing its resistance to 2.0 \(\Omega\) find the initial acceleration of the bar.

Solution

Solution 41E

Introduction

If current passes through the rod, there will be an upward force on the rod due to magnetic field. We have to calculate the maximum voltage of the battery for which the bar will still remain on the support.

In the second part we have to calculate the acceleration of the battery if the resistance value decreases to

Step 1

The current in the bar will flow from left to right side and the magnetic field is into the plane of the paper. Hence the magnetic force on the bar is vertically upwards. Now for maximum current, this upward force will be balanced by the weight of the bar.

The weight of the bar is given by

Where  and  are the mass of the rod and gravitational acceleration.

The magnetic force is given by

Where  is the current and  is the length of the rod and  is the magnetic field

Hence we have

Now we have

 kg

 m

 T

And we know that

Hence we have

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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

Solved: A thin, 50.0-cm-long metal bar with mass 750 g

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