Paper 3, Section II, D

Electromagnetism | Part IB, 2016

(a) State Faraday's law of induction for a moving circuit in a time-dependent magnetic field and define all the terms that appear.

(b) Consider a rectangular circuit DEFG in the z=0z=0 plane as shown in the diagram below. There are two rails parallel to the xx-axis for x>0x>0 starting at D\mathrm{D} at (x,y)=(0,0)(x, y)=(0,0) and GG at (0,L)(0, L). A battery provides an electromotive force E0\mathcal{E}_{0} between DD and GG driving current in a positive sense around DEFG. The circuit is completed with a bar resistor of resistance RR, length LL and mass mm that slides without friction on the rails; it connects EE at (s(t),0)(s(t), 0) and FF at (s(t),L)(s(t), L). The rest of the circuit has no resistance. The circuit is in a constant uniform magnetic field B0B_{0} parallel to the zz-axis.

[In parts (i)-(iv) you can neglect any magnetic field due to current flow.]

(i) Calculate the current in the bar and indicate its direction on a diagram of the circuit.

(ii) Find the force acting on the bar.

(iii) If the initial velocity and position of the bar are respectively s˙(0)=v0>0\dot{s}(0)=v_{0}>0 and s(0)=s0>0s(0)=s_{0}>0, calculate s˙(t)\dot{s}(t) and s(t)s(t) for t>0t>0.

(iv) If E0=0\mathcal{E}_{0}=0, find the total energy dissipated in the circuit after t=0t=0 and verify that total energy is conserved.

(v) Describe qualitatively the effect of the magnetic field caused by the induced current flowing in the circuit when E0=0\mathcal{E}_{0}=0.

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