Magnetic field due to current carrying conductor - class-XII

magnetic field due to current carrying conductor

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In a circular current-carrying conductor, if the current flows in the clockwise direction, the magnetic field direction is __________.

  1. Parallel to the coil towards the observer
  2. Perpendicular to the plane of the coil away from the observer
  3. Perpendicular to the plane of the coil towards the observer
  4. Parallel to the plane of the coil away from the observer
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider an experiment where Electric current is flowing in a wire. It is observed that clockwise magnetic field is produced around the wire. A teacher decides to reverse the direction of source battery which results in reversal of electrical current. What will be the effect on magnetic field?

  1. Magnetic field disappears
  2. Direction of field lines reverse
  3. Field lines changes direction to parallel to wire
  4. None of the above
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Axis of a solid cylinder of infinite length and radius $R$ lies along $y$-axis. It carries a uniformly distributed corrent I along +$y$ direction. Magnetic field at a point $(R/2,y,R/2)$ is 

  1. $\cfrac{\mu _{0}I}{4\pi R}\left(\hat{i}-\hat{k}\right)$
  2. $\cfrac{\mu _{0}I}{2\pi R}\left(\hat{j}-\hat{k}\right)$
  3. $\cfrac{\mu _{0}I}{4\pi R}\hat{j}$
  4. $\cfrac{\mu _{0}I}{4\pi R}\left(\hat{j}+\hat{k}\right)$
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A current carrying circular loop of radius R is placed in the x-y plane with centre at the origin. Half of the loop with x > 0 is now bent so that it now lies in the $y-z$ plane.

  1. The magnitude of magnetic moment now diminishes.
  2. The magnetic moment does not change.
  3. The magnitude of $\bar B$ at $(0,0, z), z$>>R increases.
  4. The magnitude of $\bar B$ at $(0, 0, z), z$>>R is unchanged.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following entities are closely associated to each other

  1. Gravitation and nuclear fusion
  2. Electricity and magnetism
  3. Chemical Bonding and Planetary motion
  4. None
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Define Electromagnetism

  1. The study of attraction or repulsion between two magnets is called electromagnetism
  2. The study of electric effects due to magnetic interaction is called electromagnetism
  3. The study of magnetic effects produced due to electric current is called electromagnetism
  4. The study of magnetic effects produced due to electric charge is called electromagnetism
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following phenomenon can be related to electric current 

  1. Magentism
  2. Gravitation
  3. Nuclear Fission
  4. Chemical Bonding
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Magnetic effect of current was discovered by:

  1. John Ambrose Fleming
  2. Hans Christian Oersted
  3. Michael Faraday
  4. André-Marie Ampère
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How can you determine direction of magnetic field lines around a current carrying conductor

  1. Left hand Thumb Rule
  2. Right Hand Thumb Rule
  3. By rotating the conductor
  4. Using sonometer
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

One metal wire is kept in east-west direction.  $I$  is the current flow due west. Then, due to magnetic field  $\vec { { B } }$  of the earth on the wire is in the........ Direction.

  1. downward
  2. Upward
  3. north
  4. south
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The shape of a magnetic field lines around a straight current carrying conductor is.......

  1. Circular
  2. Straight line
  3. Curved
  4. Parabolic
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A loosely wound helix made of stiff wire is mounted vertically with the lower end just touching a dish of mercury when a current from the battery is started in the coil through the mercury

  1. the wire oscillates
  2. the wire continues making contact
  3. the wire breaks contact just when the current is passed
  4. the mercury will expand by heating due to passage of current
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A moving charge produces

  1. Neither electric field nor magnetic field
  2. Electro-static field only
  3. Magnetic field only
  4. Both magnetic and electro-static field
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The magnetic lines of force due to straight current carrying conductor are:

  1. circular lines
  2. straight lines
  3. concentric lines
  4. elliptical lines
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the shape of a current-carrying conductor whose magnetic field pattern resembles that of a bar magnet?

  1. circular loop
  2. straight
  3. U-shaped
  4. solenoid
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The strength and direction of the magnetic field depends on ..........

  1. Magnitude of electric current
  2. Direction of electric current
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of the above
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following effects of current does not depend on the direction of current?

  1. Lighting and chemical effects
  2. Heating and lighting effects
  3. Heating and magnetic effects
  4. Magnetic and chemical effects
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What inferences were drawn from Oersteds experiment?

  1. A current or a moving charge produces magnetic field around it
  2. Presence of magnetic field can be detected using a compass needle
  3. The strength and direction of the magnetic field depends on the magnitude and direction of the current
  4. All of the above
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The magnitude of current is ........ the magnitude of magnetic field

  1. Inversely proportional to
  2. Directly proportional to
  3. Same as
  4. None of the above
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following observations are true for Hans Oersteds experiment?
a. When current passes through the wire the compass needle comes to rest in a direction along the Earths magnetic field.
b. When placed just above the wire, North Pole of the compass needle deflects towards the east when current is passes from A to B.
c. When placed just below the wire, North Pole of the compass needle deflects towards the east when current is passes from B to A i.e. on reversing the direction of current

  1. a and c
  2. a and b
  3. b and c
  4. All of the above
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When current passes through the circuit a compass needle rests in which direction (with respect to the Earth)?

  1. South-north
  2. North-south
  3. East-west
  4. West-east
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

State whether True or False :

If electric current is passed through metal body then it behaves as magnet.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who first discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism?

  1. Faraday
  2. Newton
  3. Maxwell
  4. Oersted
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Chose the correct statement from the following:

  1. Electric current is a scalar quantity
  2. Charge carries in metals are ions
  3. The area of current- time graph gives charge
  4. A charge in motion produces both electric and magnetic field
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two long parallel wires A and B separated by a distance d, carry currents $i _1$ and $i _2$ respectively in the same direction. Write the following steps in a sequential order to find the magnitude of the resultant magnetic field at a point 'P', which is between the wires and is a distance '$x$' from the wire A.
(All the physical quantities are measured in SI units)
(a) Note the given values of $i _1, i _2$, $d$ and $x$.
(b) Write the formula to find the magnetic field due to a long straight current carrying wire i.e. $\displaystyle B=\frac{\mu _0 i}{2 \pi r}$
(c) Find the directions of the magnetic field at 'P' due to two wires A and B, using right hand thumb rule.
(d) Determine the magnetic field at P due to wire A, using $B _1 \displaystyle = \frac{\mu _0 i _1}{2 \pi x}$
(e) If the directions of magnetic field are same, then the resultant magnitude is equal to the sum of $B _1$ and $B _2$.
(f) Determine the magnetic field $B _2$ due to wire B at point P, ie. $B _2 = \displaystyle \frac{\mu _o i _2}{2 \pi (d-x)}$
(g) If the directions of magnetic fields are opposite to each other, then the resultant magnitude is equal to the difference of $B _1$ and $B _2$.

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