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This document contains 13 tutorial problems about magnetostatics and calculating magnetic fields and vector potentials. The problems involve calculating magnetic fields from current distributions in wires, loops, shells, slabs and cylindrical conductors. They also involve calculating vector potentials for surface currents and uniform magnetic fields.

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Tutorial 7

This document contains 13 tutorial problems about magnetostatics and calculating magnetic fields and vector potentials. The problems involve calculating magnetic fields from current distributions in wires, loops, shells, slabs and cylindrical conductors. They also involve calculating vector potentials for surface currents and uniform magnetic fields.

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PH 103 : Electricity and Magnetism

Tutorial Sheet 7 : Magnetostatics


~ = K0 (i + j). Calculate the rate
1. A surface current density in the x-y plane is given by K
of flow of charges across a straight line joining the points A(2,0) with B(2,2) in the plane.
2. A semi-circular wire carries a steady current I as shown in the figure. Find the magnetic
field at a point P on the other semi-circle due to the current I.

3. A long wire is bent into a hairpin-like shape as shown in the figure. Find an expression
for the magnetic field at P, which lies at the centre of the semi-circular part of radius R.

4. A current I flows through an infinitely long wire having the shape of a curve given by
n

o

the equation, r = a/ cos 1 + sin2 , as shown in the figure. Calculate the magnetic
field at the origin O. a is a constant where as r and are plane polar coordinates with
defined with respect to the y-axis.

5. A spherical shell of radius R has uniform charge density on it. It is rotating with
angular speed about an axis though its centre. Find the magnetic field at the centre.
6. A long cylindrical conductor of radius a has a current with current density given by
0 r/a) where r is the radial distance from the axis of the conductor. Calculate the
J~ = k(J
magnetic field, both inside and outside the conductor.
1

7. An infinitely long cylindrical conductor of radius R, carries a current I0 along the z


direction. An infinitely long cylindrical hole is drilled out of the conductor, parallel to
the z axis, as shown in the figure. The center of the hole is on the x-axis at x = b, and
the radius of the hole is a. Determine the magnetic field at a point inside the hole.

8. Fine insulated copper wire is wound in the form of a closed spiral, to form a circular disc
of radius a, the ends of the spiral being at the centre and on the circumference. When a
current I passes through the wire, show that the magnetic field at a point on the axis of
the disc given by
o
0 nI n
cosh1 (sec sin )
B=
2
where n is the number of turns per unit length.

9. A circular loop of wire carries a current I1 . A long straight wire in the plane of the
loop carries a current I2 . The loop subtends an angle 2 at a point on the wire which
is nearest to it. Show that the force between the wire and the loop has a magnitude
0 I1 I2 (sec 1).
10. An infinite slab of thickness 2d is arranged in kept in the x-y plane such that z = 0
represents the bottom of the slab and z = 2d represents the top of the slab. Find the
magnetic field both inside and outside the slab.
11. Determine the vector potential for an infinite surface current sheet with a current density
~ = K0i. Is your solution unique?
K
12. A long cylindrical conductor having radius R carries a current J. Find the vector potential
of this current distribution at all points in space r > R and r < R.
~ represents the vector potential of a uniform magnetic field B.
~
~ = 1 ~r B
13. Show that A
2
Also find the gauge of this potential.

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