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SERWAY VUILLE, COLLEGE PHYSICS, 12TH EDITION

TUTORIAL 7 – Chapter 19.7 – 19.9, 20.1 – 20.2

Conceptual and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

1. The ____________ (electric flux / magnetic flux) is the measure of how much the
____________ (magnetic field / magnetic force) vectors penetrate through a given surface.

2. “The sum of all such products over the closed path is equal to µo times the net current, I
that passes through the surface bounded by the closed path”. This statement is known as
____________ (Faraday’s Law of Induction / Ampere’s Circuital Law).

3. Faraday’s Law of induction states that the instantaneous emf induced in a circuit equals
the negative of the rate of ____________ through the circuit.

A. change of magnetic field

B. change of magnetic flux
C. change of area
D. change of magnetic moment

4. Which of the following statements is FALSE about Lenz’s Law?

A. The current from the induced emf creates a magnetic field with flux opposing the change
in magnetic flux through a circuit.
B. An induced current flows in the direction that opposes the change that caused the
current.
C. Induced emf is directly proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux through the
coil.
D. An induced currents form to oppose a change in the magnetic flux.

5. List two factors that affect the induced emf.

Structured Questions

Chapter 19.7 - 19.9

1. Two long, parallel wires carry currents of I1 = 3.00 A and I2 = 5.00 A in the direction indicated
in Figure 1.

Figure 1

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(a) Find the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field at a point midway between the
wires (d = 20.0 cm).
Answer: 4.00 x 10-6 T toward the bottom of the page

(b) Find the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field at point P, located d = 20.0 cm
above the wire carrying the 5.00-A current.
Answer: 6.67 x 10-6 T, 77.0o relative to y-component at 2nd quadrant

2. A wire carries a 7.00-A current along the x-axis, and another wire carries a 6.00-A current
along the y-axis, as shown in Figure 2. What is the magnetic field at point P, located at
x = 4.00 m, y = 3.00 m?

Figure 2
Answer: 0.167 x 10-6 T out of the page

3. Two parallel wires separated by 4.0 cm repel each other with a force per unit length of
2.0 x 10-4 N/m. The current in one wire is 5.0 A.
(a) Find the current in the other wire.
Answer: 8.0 A

(b) Are the currents in the same direction or opposite directions?

(c) What would happen if the direction of one current were reversed and doubled?

4. In Figure 3 the current in the long, straight wire is I1 = 5.0 A and the wire lies in the plane of
the rectangular loop, which carries 10.0 A. The dimensions shown are c = 0.100 m,
a = 0.15 m, and 𝑙 = 0.45 m. Find the magnitude and direction of the net force exerted by
the magnetic field due to the straight wire on the loop.

Figure 3
Answer: 2.70 x 10-5 N to the left

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5. An electron is moving at a speed of 1.0 x 104 m/s in a circular path of radius 2.0 cm
inside a solenoid. The magnetic field of the solenoid is perpendicular to the plane of the
electron’s path. Find,
(a) the strength of the magnetic field inside the solenoid and
Answer: 2.8 x 10-6 T

(b) the current in the solenoid if it has 25 turns per centimetre.

Answer: 8.9 x 10-4 A

Chapter 20.1 - 20.2

6. A cube of edge length 𝑙 = 2.5 cm is positioned as shown in Figure 4. There is a uniform

magnetic field throughout the region with components Bx = +5.0 T, By = +4.0 T and
Bz = +3.0 T.

Figure 4
(a) Calculate the flux through the shaded face of the cube.
Answer: 3.1 x 10-3 T.m2

(b) What is the total flux emerging from the volume enclosed by the cube (i.e., the total
flux through all six faces)?

7. Find the flux of Earth’s magnetic field of magnitude 5.00 × 10-5 T through a square loop of
area 20.0 cm2
(a) when the field is perpendicular to the plane of the loop,
Answer: 1.00 x 10-7 T.m2

(b) when the field makes a 30.0° angle with the normal to the plane of the loop,
Answer: 8.66 x 10-8 T.m2

(c) when the field makes a 90.0° angle with the normal to the plane.
Answer: 0 T.m2

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8. Three loops of wire move near a long straight wire carrying a current as in Figure 5. What
is the direction of the induced current, if any, in

Figure 5
(a) loop A
(b) loop B
(c) loop C

Additional Question

9. If the area of the coil is 6920 cm2 and the magnetic field applied is increasing uniformly
from 0.3 T to 1.6 T, determine the time taken to produce induced emf of −1.2 V.
(PAST YEAR PHY098 2019)
Answer: ∆t = 0.75 s

10. (TEST 02 PHY098 2015)

Figure 7

(a) Determine the direction of the induced current through the resistor PQ as shown in
Figure 7 as the magnet is moved away from the coil, and name the physics law
determining the induced current’s direction.

(b) The flux through a 200-turn coil changes from 0.06 Wb to 0.025 Wb in 0.5 s. The coil
is connected to an electric light, and the combined resistance is 2 Ω.
i) Calculate the average induced emf.
Answer:  = 14.0 V

ii) Determine the average current delivered to the light filament.

Answer: I = 7.0 A

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