(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) In a probe that uses the Hall effect to measure magneticfields, a 12.0-A current passes through a 1.50-cm-wide1.30-mm-thick strip of sodium metal. If the Hall emf is1.86 /xV, what is the magnitude of the magnetic field (take itperpendicular to the flat face of the strip)? Assume onefree electron per atom of Na, and take its specific gravity tobe 0.971.
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