Question

You want to produce a magnetic field of magnitude 5.50 x 10¹ T at a distance of 0.0 6 m from a long, straight wire's center. (a) What current is required to produce this field? (b) With the current found in part (a), how strong is the magnetic field 8.00 cm from the wire's center?

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) I = 1650000 A

(b) 4.125 T

Explanation:

Magnetic field, B = 5.5 T

distance, r = 0.06 m

(a) Let the current is I.

The magnetic field due to a long wire is given by

$B =\frac{\mu o}{4\pi }\frac{2 I}{r}\\5.5= 10^{-7}\times \frac{2\times I}{0.06}\\I =1650000 A$

(b) Let the magnetic field is B' at distance r = 0.08 m.

$B =\frac{\mu o}{4\pi }\frac{2 I}{r}\\B = 10^{-7}\times \frac{2\times 1650000}{0.08}\\B'= 4.125 T$