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Textbook Solutions for Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach, Standard Edition (Chs 1-36)

Chapter 29 Problem 29.91

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The heart produces a weak magnetic field that can be used to diagnose certain heart problems. It is a dipole field produced by a current loop in the outer layers of the heart. a. It is estimated that the field at the center of the heart is 90 pT. What current must circulate around an 8.0-cm-diameter loop, about the size of a human heart, to produce this field? b. What is the magnitude of the hearts magnetic dipole moment?

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Title Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach, Standard Edition (Chs 1-36) 4 
Author Randall D. Knight (Professor Emeritus)
ISBN 9780134081496

The heart produces a weak magnetic field that can be used

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