A surveyor is using a magnetic compass 6.1 m below a power line in which there is a steady current of 100 A. (a) What is the magnetic field at the site of the compass due to the power line? (b) Will this field interfere seriously with the compass reading? The horizontal component of Earths magnetic field at the site is 20 mT.
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In Fig. 29-57, four long straight wires are perpendicular to the page, and their cross sections form a square of edge length a ! 13.5 cm. Each wire carries 7.50 A, and the currents are out of the page in wires 1 and 4 and into the page in wires 2 and 3. In unitvector notation, what is the net magnetic force per meter of wire length on wire 4?
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