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CHAPTER NO. 4 SHEET NO. 1 APPLICATION OF BIOT SAVART LAW

Q.1) A wire placed along the north-south I1 I2

direction carries a current of 8 A from south  
to north. Find the magnetic field due to a 1 P Q R
cm piece of wire at a point 200 cm north- r x
east from the piece.
Q.5) Use Biot-Savart law to obtain an expression
 for the magnetic field at the centre of a coil
P bent in the form of a square of side 2a
→
r N carrying current I.
→ 0
dl 45
Q.6) A current of 1.0 A is flowing in the sides of
W E an equilateral triangle of side 4.5 10−2 m.
O Find the magnetic field at the centroid of the
S triangle.

Q.7) Figure shows a right-angled isosceles

Q.2) An element l = xiˆ is placed at the origin PQR having its base equal to a. A current
and carries a large current I=10 A. What is
of I ampere is passing downwards along a
the magnetic field on the y-axis at a distance
thin straight wire cutting the plane of paper
of 0.5 m. x = 1cm.
normally as shown at Q. Likewise a similar
Q.3) Figure shows two current-carrying wires 1 wire carries an equal current passing
and 2. Find the magnitudes and directions of normally upwards at R. Find the magnitude
the magnetic field at points P, Q and R. and direction of the magnetic induction B at
P. Assume the wires to be infinitely long.
20 cm
P
0
20A
30 A 90
r r
10 cm 10 cm 10 cm 10 cm
P Q R

Q R
a
1 2
Q.8) A long straight wire carrying a current of
Q.4) Two parallel wires P and Q placed at a 200 A, runs through a cubical box, entering
separation of r=6 cm carry electric currents and leaving through holes in the centres of
I1 = 5 A and I 2 = 2 A in opposite directions opposite faces, as shown in Fig. Each side of
the box is of 20 cm. Consider an element PQ
as shown in Fig. Find the point on the line
of the wire 1 cm long at the centre of the
PQ where the resultant magnetic filed is
box. Calculate the magnetic field produced
zero.
by this element at the points A, B, C and D.
The points A, B and C are the centres of the
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 faces of the cube and D is the midpoint of Q.12) Figure shows a current loop having two
one edge. circular segment and joined by two radial
lines. Find the magnetic field at the centre
A O.
D
I

P Q C R
S
B
I
Q.9) A closed circuit is in the form of a regular P Q
hexagon of side a. If the circuit carries b
current I, what is magnetic induction at the 
a
centre of the hexagon?

Q.10) Two coaxial circular loops L1 and L2 of O

radii 3 cm and 4 are placed as shown. What
should be the magnitude and direction of the
current in the loop L2 so that the net
magnetic field at the point O be zero?
m
Q.13) The wire shown in Fig. carries a current of
10 A. Determine the magnitude of the
magnetic field at the centre O. Given radius
of the bent coil is 3 cm.

O
4c

cm
3 O
0
90
4 cm 3 cm

I1 =1A
L1 L2

Q.11) A long wire is bent as shown in Fig. What

Q.14) The current-loop PQRSTP formed by two
will be the magnitude and direction of the
circular segments of radii R1 and R2 carries a
field at the centre O of the circular portion,
if a current I is passed through the wire? current of I ampere. Find the magnetic field
Assume that the various portions of the wire at the common centre O. What will be the
do not touch at point P. field if angle  = 900 ?

Q.15) Two identical coils P and Q each of radius R

are lying in perpendicular planes such that
r
they have a common centre. Find the
I
I magnitude and direction of the magnetic
O
field at the common centre of the two coils,
if they carry currents equal to I and 3 I
I P respectively.
I

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 Q BP
→ I
Q B

 d
P P O
I BQ
I

Q.16) Figure shows two semicircular loops of radii
R1 andR2 carrying current I. Find the
magnitude and direction of the magnetic
field at the common centre O.
I
Q.19) Two insulating infinitely long conductors
carrying currents I1 and I 2 lie mutually
perpendicular to each other in the same
plane, as shown in Fig. Find the locus of the
point at which the net magnetic field is zero.


II I
R1 I1

 
I2
O
R2 III
IV

I
Q.17) A metallic wire is bent into the shape shown
in Fig. and carries a current I. If O is the
common centre of all the three circular arcs
of radii r, 2r and 3r, find the magnetic field
at the point O.

Q.20) As shown in Fig. a cell is connected across
two points A and B of a uniform circular
conductor. Prove that the magnetic field at
its centre O will be zero.

O
D
r O B
I 
I I2 I1
C
r
A
I

I r

I
Q.21) Two infinitely long wires carry equal current
I. Each wire follows a 900 arc along the
Q.18) In Fig. the curved portion is a semi-circle circumference of the same circle of radius R,
and the straight wires are long. Find the as shown in Fig. Find the magnetic field at
magnetic field at the point O. the centre O.

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 B I A B
 B

C 
O I E

G
c) R d) R
I I

H
D

 

Q.22) (a) Two circular coils X and Y having radii

R and R/2 respectively are placed in
horizontal plane with their centres
coinciding with each other. Coil X has a
current I flowing through it in the clockwise
sense. What must be the current in coil Y to
make the total magnetic field at the common
centre of the two coils, zero?

(b) With the same currents flowing in the

two coils, if the coil Y is now lifted
vertically upwards through a distance R,
what would be the net magnetic field at the
centre of coil Y?

Q.23) A charge Q is uniformly distributed over the

surface of non-conducting disc of radius R.
The disc rotates about an axis perpendicular
to its plane and passing through its centre
with an angular velocity . As a result of
this rotation a magnetic field of induction B
is obtained at the centre of the disc. If we
keep both the amount of charge placed on
the disc and its angular velocity to be
constant and vary the radius of the disc, then
the variation of the magnetic induction at the
centre of the disc will be represented by the
figure.

B B

a) R b) R

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