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Title: The Magnetic Field


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The Magnetic Field
  • Physics
  • Montwood High School
  • R. Casao

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  • Our most familiar experience of magnetism is
    through permanent magnets.
  • Inside a magnetized body, such as a permanent
    magnet, there is a coordinated motion of certain
    electrons in an unmagnetized body, the electron
    motions are not coordinated.
  • These are made of materials which exhibit a
    property we call ferromagnetism - i.e., they
    can be magnetized.
  • An unmagnetized piece of iron can become a
    permanent magnet by being stroked with a
    permanent magnet
  • If a piece of unmagnetized iron is placed near a
    strong permanent magnet, the piece of iron will
    eventually become magnetized.
  • A magnetized object can lose its magnetic
    properties by heating and cooling the iron or by
    hammering the iron.

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  • Magnetic materials can be described as hard or
    soft, depending upon the extent to which they
    retain their magnetism.
  • Soft magnetic materials, such as iron, are easily
    magnetized but also tend to lose their magnetism
    easily.
  • Hard magnetic materials, like cobalt and nickel,
    are difficult to magnetize, but once they are
    magnetized, they tend to retain their magnetism.
  • The magnetic properties of many materials are
    explained in terms of a model in which an
    electron is said to spin on its axis (remember
    the up and down arrows in the orbital notation
    you used in chemistry ??).
  • The spinning electron is a charge in motion that
    produces a magnetic field.

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  • In atoms with many electrons, the electrons
    usually pair up with their spins opposite each
    other, and their magnetic fields cancel each
    other. This is why most substances are not
    magnetic.
  • In ferromagnetic materials such as iron, cobalt,
    and nickel, the magnetic fields produced by the
    electron spins do not cancel completely.
  • Strong coupling occurs between neighboring atoms
    to form large groups of atoms whose net spins are
    aligned these groups are called domains.
  • In an unmagnetized substance, the magnetic
    domains are randomly oriented.
  • In magnetized materials, whether
  • permanent or temporary, the domains
  • are aligned.

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  • unmagnetized
  • magnetized

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  • In hard magnetic materials, the domain alignment
    remains after the external magnetic field is
    removed.
  • In soft magnetic materials, once the magnetic
    field is removed, the random motion of the
    particles in the material changes the orientation
    of the domains back to a random arrangement.
  • Heating and hammering can cause the domains in
    hard magnetic materials to become randomly
    arranged, resulting in a loss of the permanent
    magnetic properties.
  • Depending on how we position two magnets, they
    will attract or repel, i.e. they exert forces on
    each other.
  • Thus, a magnet must have an associated field
  • a magnetic field.
  • We describe magnets as having two magnetic poles
    North (N) and South (S).
  • Magnetic poles always occur in pairs.

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  • When a magnet is broken in half, equal and
    opposite poles appear at either side of the break
    point.
  • The result is two magnets, each with a north and
    south pole.

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  • A compass is used to detect the presence of a
    magnetic field.
  • The needle of a compass is a piece of magnetized
    iron.
  • The compass needle aligns with the magnetic field
    at the needles position.
  • The north pole of a compass needle is attracted
    toward the geographic north pole of the Earth and
    repelled by the Earths geographic south pole.
  • An object that contains iron but is not itself
    magnetized (shows no tendency to point north or
    south) is attracted by either pole of a permanent
    magnet.
  • This is the attraction that acts between a magnet
    and the unmagnetized steel door of a refrigerator.

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  • Only iron and a few other materials, such as
    cobalt, nickel, gadolinium, and some of their
    oxides and alloys, show strong magnetic effects
    and are said to be ferromagnetic.
  • Other materials show more slight magnetic effect.
  • The Earth itself is a large magnet.
  • Geophysicists generally agree
  • that the Earths magnetic poles
  • arise from currents in its molten
  • iron core.
  • The magnetic poles are offset
  • slightly from the geographic
  • poles of the Earths rotation axis.
  • The geographic north pole is actually a
  • south magnetic pole.

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  • We used the concept of an electric field
    surrounding an electric charge.
  • Similarly, we can imagine a magnetic field
    surrounding a magnet.
  • The force one magnet exerts on another can be
    described as the interaction between one magnet
    and the magnetic field of the other.
  • We can also draw magnetic field lines.
  • For magnetic field lines
  • The number of lines per unit area is proportional
    to the strength of the magnetic field. The field
    lines are closer together where the magnetic
    field is stronger.
  • The direction of the magnetic field is tangent to
    a field line at any point.

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  • The direction of the magnetic field at a given
    point is defined as the direction that the north
    pole of a compass needle would point if placed at
    that point.
  • Magnetic field lines always point out from the
    north pole and toward the south pole of a
    magnet.
  • Magnetic field lines continue inside the magnet
    to form closed loops.

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  • The origin of magnetism lies in moving electric
    charges.
  • Moving (or rotating) charges generate magnetic
    fields in the surrounding space in addition to
    its electric field.
  • An electric current generates a magnetic field.
  • A magnetic field will exert a force on a moving
    charge that is present in the field.
  • A magnetic field will exert a force on a
  • conductor that carries an electric current
  • in the field.
  • The magnetic field is a vector field
  • associated with each point in space.
  • The symbol for the magnetic field if B.

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  • We can define a magnetic field B at a point in
    space in terms of the magnetic force FB that the
    field exerts on a charged particle moving with a
    velocity v.
  • Experiments on charged particles moving in a
    magnetic field give the following results
  • The magnitude FB of the magnetic force exerted on
    the particle is proportional to the magnitude of
    the charge q.
  • If a 1 µC charge and a 2 µC charge move through
    the same magnetic field with the same velocity,
    experiments show that the force on the 2 µC
    charge is twice as great as the force on the 1 µC
    charge.
  • The magnitude FB of the magnetic force exerted on
    the particle is proportional to the magnitude, or
    strength, of the field B.
  • If we double the magnitude of the field without
    changing the charge or its velocity, the force
    doubles.

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  • The magnitude FB of the magnetic force exerted on
    the particle is proportional to the speed v of
    the particle.
  • A charged particle at rest experiences no
    magnetic force.
  • The magnetic force FB does not have the same
    direction as the magnetic field B but instead is
    always perpendicular to both B and the velocity
    v.
  • The magnitude FB of the magnetic force is
    proportional to the component of the velocity
    perpendicular to the field. The maximum magnetic
    force FB occurs when the magnetic field B and the
    velocity v are at right angles to each other.
  • The magnetic force FB is zero when the magnetic
    field B and the velocity v are parallel (0º) or
    antiparallel (180º).

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  • The direction of FB is always perpendicular to
    the plane containing B and v.
  • Equation
  • q is the magnitude of the charge (drop any
    negative signs on charges)
  • ? is the angle between the direction of v and the
    direction of B.

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  • The direction of the magnetic force FB is given
    by the right hand rule
  • Point the fingers of your right hand in the
    direction of the velocity vector v.
  • Point the palm of your right hand in the
    direction of the magnetic field vector B.
  • The thumb of your right hand points in the
    direction of the magnetic force FB.

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Casaos Version of the Right-Hand Rule
  • I use the right hand as described for positive
    charges. No change here.
  • I use the left hand for negative
  • charges.
  • Point the fingers of the left hand
  • in the direction of the velocity
  • vector v.
  • Point the palm of the left hand
  • in the direction of the magnetic
  • field vector B.
  • The thumb of the left hand points
  • in the direction of the magnetic
  • force FB.

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  • If the magnetic field B is directed into the
    page, crosses represent the tail of the vector
    arrow.
  • If the magnetic field B is directed out of the
    page, dots represent the head of the vector
    arrow.
  • The units of the magnetic field B is the Tesla
    and the abbreviation is T.
  • An older unit for the magnetic field is the Gauss
    (1 G 0.0001 T).

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Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor
  • A magnetic force is exerted on a single charged
    particle when the particle moves through a
    magnetic field, so a current-carrying wire placed
    in a magnetic field also experiences a magnetic
    force.
  • Current is a collection of many charged particles
    in motion, so the resultant force exerted by the
    magnetic field in the wire is the sum of the
    individual forces exerted on all the charged
    particles making up the current.
  • The force exerted on the particles is transmitted
    to the wire when the particles collide with the
    atoms making up the wire.

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  • The force on a current-carrying conductor can be
    demonstrated by hanging a wire between the poles
    of a magnet.

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  • Equation
  • l is the length of the wire in the magnetic
    field.
  • ? is the angle between the length of the wire (or
    the direction of the current) and the magnetic
    field.
  • The direction of the magnetic force is found
    using the right hand rule.
  • Fingers in the direction of I.
  • Palm in direction of B.
  • Thumb points in direction of FB.

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  • A current consists of charge carriers q moving
    with velocity v.

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Magnetic field around a long, straight
current-carrying wire
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Forces Between Two Current-Carrying Wires
  • Currents traveling in the same direction result
    in an attractive force acting between the two
    wires.
  • Currents traveling in opposite directions through
    two wires produce a repulsive force between the
    two wires.

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  • Force between two parallel

  • wires
  • µo 4p x 10-7 Tm/A
  • l length of conducting wire
  • d distance between wires

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Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform
Magnetic Field
  • When a charged particle traveling with velocity v
    enters a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to
    the magnetic field, the particle moves in a
    circle in a plane perpendicular to the magnetic
    field.
  • The particle moves in a circle
  • because the magnetic force FB is
  • at right angles to v and B and has
  • a constant magnitude qvB.
  • As the force deflects the particle,
  • the directions of v and FB change
  • continuously.

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  • Because FB always points toward the center of the
    circle, it changes only the direction of the
    velocity and does not affect the magnitude of the
    velocity.
  • Motion of a charged particle under the action of
    a magnetic field alone is always motion with
    constant speed.
  • The right hand rule can be used to
  • determine the direction of the force
  • acting on the charged particle.
  • Because the particle moves under
  • the influence of a constant force
  • that is always at right angles to the
  • velocity of the particle, the path
  • is a circle of constant speed v.

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  • The inward directed magnetic force FB provides
    the centripetal force FC to keep the particle
    traveling in a circular path.

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Magnetic Field of a Current-Carrying Wire
  • A current-carrying wire produces a magnetic field
    and can be detected by a compass needle placed
    near the wire.
  • When no current is in the wire, all needles point
    in the direction of the Earths magnetic field.
  • When the wire carries a strong, steady current,
    the needles deflect in directions tangent to the
    circle around the wire, pointing in the direction
    of the magnetic field B due to the wire.

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  • A current-carrying wire produces a magnetic field
    and can be detected by a compass needle placed
    near the wire.
  • When no current is in the wire, all needles point
    in the direction of the Earths magnetic field.
  • When the wire carries a strong, steady current,
    the needles deflect in directions tangent to the
    circle around the wire, pointing in the direction
    of the magnetic field B due to the wire.
  • If the current is reversed, the needles reverse
    directions.

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  • Right hand rule for determining the direction of
    the magnetic field around a current carrying
    wire if the wire is grasped in the right hand
    with the thumb in the direction of the current I,
    the fingers will curl around the wire in the
    direction of the magnetic field B.
  • The magnetic field lines form concentric circles
    around the wire.

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  • The magnitude of B is the same everywhere on a
    circular path centered on the wire and lying in a
    plane perpendicular to the wire.

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  • The magnetic field strength increases as the
    current I increases.
  • The magnetic field strength decreases as the
    distance from the wire increases.
  • Equation where
    r is the distance from the

  • wire to the location of the

  • magnetic field

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Current Loops and Solenoids
  • The right hand rule can also be applied to find
    the direction of the magnetic field of a
    current-carrying loop.
  • No matter where on the loop you apply the right
    hand rule, the field within the loop points in
    the same direction.

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  • If a long, straight wire is bent into a coil of
    several closely spaced loops, the resulting
    device is called a solenoid.

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  • Solenoids produce a strong magnetic field by
    combining several loops.
  • The solenoid has many applications because it
    acts as a magnet when it carries a current.
  • The magnetic field inside a solenoid increases
    with the current and the number of coils per unit
    length.
  • The magnetic field of a solenoid can be increased
    by inserting an iron rod through the center of
    the coil this device is often called an
    electromagnet.
  • The magnetic field that is induced in the iron
    rod adds to the magnetic field of the solenoid,
    creating a more powerful magnet.

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  • In a car or truck, the starter solenoid helps to
    start the vehicle. The starter solenoid receives
    a large electric current from the battery and a
    small electric current from the ignition switch.
  • When the ignition switch is turned on (when the
    key is turned to start the car), the small
    electric current forces the starter solenoid to
    close a pair of heavy contacts, thus relaying the
    large electric current to the starter motor.
  • If a starter solenoid receives insufficient power
    from the battery, it will fail to start the
    motor, and may produce a rapid 'clicking' or
    'clacking' sound.
  • This can be caused by a low or dead battery, by
    corroded or loose connections in the cable, or by
    a broken or damaged positive (red) cable from the
    battery.

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  • Any of these will result in some power to the
    solenoid, but not enough to hold the heavy
    contacts closed, so the starter motor itself
    never spins, and the engine is not rotated and
    does not start.

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  • Magnetic field inside a solenoid
  • ?o 4p x 10-7
  • The quantity is the number of turns per
    unit length l
  • Magnetic field B inside a solenoid
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