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Multiple choice physics magnetism and matter magnetic materials behaviour of substances in magnetic field classification of magnetic materials

Assertion : When diamagnetic material is placed in a non-uniform magnetic field, it tends to move from stronger to the weaker part of the magnetic field.
Reason : Diamagnetic materials possess strong magnetism.

  1. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  2. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  3. If assertion is true but reason is false.

  4. If both assertion and reason are false.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Electrons is an atom orbiting around nucleus possess orbital angular momentum. These orbiting electrons are equivalent to current-carrying loop and thus possess orbital magnetic moment. Diamagnetic substances are the ones in which resultant magnetic moment in an atom is zero. When magnetic field is applied, those electrons having orbital magnetic moment in the same direction slow down and those in the opposite direction speed up. Thus, the substance develops a net magnetic moment in direction opposite to that of the applied field.

Multiple choice physics magnetism and matter magnetic materials behaviour of substances in magnetic field classification of magnetic materials

Assertion : At high temperature, a ferromagnet becomes a paramagnet.
Reason : The ferromagnetic property depends on temperature.

  1. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  2. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  3. If assertion is true but reason is false.

  4. If both assertion and reason are false.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

At enough high temperature, a ferromagnet become a paramagnet. The domain structure disintegrates with temperature.

Multiple choice physics magnetism and matter magnetic materials behaviour of substances in magnetic field classification of magnetic materials

Assertion : The product of magnetic susceptibility and absolute temperature for a paramagnetic substance is constant.
Reason : Susceptibility is positive but very small for paramagnetic substance.

  1. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  2. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  3. If assertion is true but reason is false.

  4. If both assertion and reason are false

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to absolute temperature.
$X \propto \frac{1}{T}$
Hence $XT = constant$
Also for paramagnetic substances the susceptibility is positive and very small.

Multiple choice physics magnetism and matter magnetic materials behaviour of substances in magnetic field classification of magnetic materials

If a magnetic material is having magnetic susceptibility $(\chi)=-1$, then the relative magnetic permeability $(\mu _r)$ and type of magnetic material is?

  1. $0$, diamagnetic

  2. $2$, ferromagnetic

  3. $1$, paramagnetic

  4. $-1$, diamagnetic

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Here, $\chi =-1$
then $\mu _r=1+\chi \Rightarrow \mu _r=1+(-1)=I-1=0$
Since, magnetic susceptibility of given material is less than one. Hence, the given magnetic material is a diamagnetic material.

Multiple choice physics magnetism and matter magnetic materials behaviour of substances in magnetic field classification of magnetic materials

A domain in ferromagnetic iron is in the form of a cube of side length $2$ $\mu m$ then the number of iron atoms in the domain are (Molecular mass of iron $=55$g $mol^{-1}$ and density $=7.92$g $cm^{-3}$)

  1. $6.92\times 10^{12}$ atoms

  2. $6.92\times 10^{11}$ atoms

  3. $6.92\times 10^{10}$ atoms

  4. $6.92\times 10^{13}$ atoms

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The volume of the cubic domain
$V=(2\mu m)^3=(2\times 10^{-6}m)^3$
$=8\times 10^{-18}m^3=8\times 10^{-12}cm^3$
and mass $=$volume $\times$ density
$=8\times 10^{-12}cm^3\times 7.9g cm^{-3}$
$=63.2\times 10^{-12}$g
Now the Avagadro number $(6.023\times 10^{23})$ of iron atoms have a mass of $55$g. Hence the number of atoms in the domain are.
$N=\dfrac{63.2\times 10^{-12}\times 6.023\times 10^{23}}{55}=6.92\times 10^{11}$ atoms.

Multiple choice physics magnetism and matter magnetic materials behaviour of substances in magnetic field classification of magnetic materials

Which of the following is true regarding dimagnetic substances (symbols have their usual meaning)?

  1. ${ \mu } _{ r }>1,{ \chi } _{ m }>1$

  2. ${ \mu } _{ r }>1,{ \chi } _{ m }<1$

  3. ${ \mu } _{ r }<1,{ \chi } _{ m }<0$

  4. ${ \mu } _{ r }<1,{ \chi } _{ m }>0$

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Diamagnetic substances induce magnetic field in the direction opposite to an external applied magnetic field and thus are repelled by external applied magnetic field.

Magnetic susceptibility of these substances is very small and negative    i.e    $\chi _m  < 0$ 
For example:
For silicon, $\chi _m =  -4.2 \times 10^{-6}$
From the equation, $\mu _r = 1+ \chi _m$
Thus, $\chi _m<0$ $\implies  \mu _r  <1$    
Hence, such materials have magnetic permeability less than unity.