(a) What is the force per meter of length on a straight wire carrying a 9.40-A current when perpendicular to a 0.90-T uniform magnetic field? (b) What if the angle between the wire and field is 35.0?
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(II) A Hall probe used to measure magnetic field strengthsconsists of a rectangular slab of material (free-electrondensity n) with width d and thickness t, carrying a current Ialong its length L The slab is immersed in a magnetic fieldof magnitude B oriented perpendicular to its rectangularface (of area Id), so that a Hall emf is produced acrossits width d. The probes magnetic sensitivity, defined asKh = %H/IB , indicates the magnitude of the Hall emfachieved for a given applied magnetic field and current.A slab with a large KH is a good candidate foruse as a Hall probe, (a) Show that = 1 lent. Thus, agood Hall probe has small values for both n and t. (b) Aspossible candidates for the material used in a Hall probe,consider (i) a typical metal {n 1 X 1029/m 3) and(ii) a (doped) semiconductor (n 3 X 1022/m 3). Given thata semiconductor slab can be manufactured with a thicknessof 0.15 mm, how thin (nm) should a metal slab be toyield a value equal to that of the semiconductor slab?Compare this metal slab thickness with the 0.3-nm size of atypical metal atom, (c) For the typical semiconductor slabdescribed in part (b), what is the expected value forwhen I = 100 mA and B = 0.1 T?
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The first step in solving 27 problem number 47 trying to solve the problem we have to refer to the textbook question: (II) A Hall probe used to measure magnetic field strengthsconsists of a rectangular slab of material (free-electrondensity n) with width d and thickness t, carrying a current Ialong its length L The slab is immersed in a magnetic fieldof magnitude B oriented perpendicular to its rectangularface (of area Id), so that a Hall emf is produced acrossits width d. The probes magnetic sensitivity, defined asKh = %H/IB , indicates the magnitude of the Hall emfachieved for a given applied magnetic field and current.A slab with a large KH is a good candidate foruse as a Hall probe, (a) Show that = 1 lent. Thus, agood Hall probe has small values for both n and t. (b) Aspossible candidates for the material used in a Hall probe,consider (i) a typical metal {n 1 X 1029/m 3) and(ii) a (doped) semiconductor (n 3 X 1022/m 3). Given thata semiconductor slab can be manufactured with a thicknessof 0.15 mm, how thin (nm) should a metal slab be toyield a value equal to that of the semiconductor slab?Compare this metal slab thickness with the 0.3-nm size of atypical metal atom, (c) For the typical semiconductor slabdescribed in part (b), what is the expected value forwhen I = 100 mA and B = 0.1 T?
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