Unit 6. Magnetic Field. Active vocabulary

1. (To) approximate [ə'prɔksɪmeɪt] наближатися, приблизно дорівнювати

2. Arbitrary point ['ɑːbɪtrərɪ] довільна точка

3. Clockwise ['klɔkwaɪz] за годинниковою стрілкою

4. Coulomb’s law ['kuːlɒm lɔː] закон Кулона

5. Cylindrical coil [sə'lɪndrɪk(ə)l] циліндрична котушка

6. (To) decrease [ˌdiː'kriːs] зменшувати(ся)

7. Equation [ɪ'kweɪʒ(ə)n] рівняння

8. Exterior field [ɪk'stɪərɪə'fiːld] зовнішнє поле

9. Helix ['hiːlɪks] (pl. – helices) спіральна котушка, спіраль

10. Intensity [ɪn'tensɪtɪ] інтенсивність, напруженість

11. Interior field [ɪn'tɪərɪə'fiːld] внутрішнє поле

12. Loop [luːp] виток, контур, замкнутий контур

13. Magnetic force магнітна сила

14. (To) oscillate ['ɔsɪleɪt] вібрувати; коливати(ся)

15. Permanent magnet ['pɜːmənənt 'mægnɪt] постійний (електро)магніт

16. (Right-hand) screw rule ['skruː'ruːl] правило сведлика

17. Solenoid ['səulənɔɪd] соленоїд

Pre-reading task

Exercise 75.In pairs, discuss the following questions.

1. Define a magnetic field.

2. Cirle the correct word in italics to complete the sentence:

The direction of the magnetic field outside a magnet is from the north/ south pole to the north/ south pole.

Reading

Exercise 76. Read, translate the text and find the terms which correspond with these descriptions.

1. ­­_____________ a coil of wire, usually cylindrical, in which a magnetic field is set up by passing a current through it.

2. _____________ a field of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle, in which another permanent magnet or moving charge experiences a force.

3. _____________ a region around a charged particle or object within which a force would be exerted on other charged particles or objects.

4. _____________ a piece of magnetic material that retains its magnetism after it is removed from a magnetic field.

5. _____________ the force exerted between magnetic poles, producing magnetization.

6. ____________ a curved or circular shape in something long, for example in a piece of string; a complete circuit for an electric current.

Magnetic fields and forces

In our study of electricity, we described the interactions between charged objects in terms of electric fields. An electric field surrounds any electric charge. In addition to containing an electric field, the region of space surrounding any moving electric charge also contains a magnetic field. A magnetic field also surrounds a magnetic substance making up a permanent magnet.

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Fig.7.

istorically, the symbol B has been used to represent a magnetic field. The direction of the magnetic field B at any location is the direction in which a compass needle points at that location. As with the electric field, we can represent the magnetic field by means of drawings with magnetic field lines.

Figure 7 shows how the magnetic field lines of a bar magnet can be traced with the help of a compass. The magnetic field lines outside the magnet point away from north poles and toward south poles.

We can define a magnetic field B at some point in space in terms of the magnetic force that the field exerts on a charged particle moving with a velocity v, which we call the test object. For the time being, let us assume that no electric or gravitational fields are present at the location of the test object. Experiments on various charged particles moving in a magnetic field give the following results:

• ^{The magnitude of the magnetic force exerted on the particle is proportional to the charge q and to the speed v of the particle.}

• The magnitude and direction of depend on the velocity of the particle and on the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field B.

• When a charged particle moves parallel to the magnetic field vector, the magnetic force acting on the particle is zero.

• When the particle’s velocity vector makes any angle θ 0 with the magnetic field, the magnetic force acts in a direction perpendicular to both v and B; that is, is perpendicular to the plane formed by v and B.

• The magnetic force exerted on a positive charge is in the direction opposite to the direction of the magnetic force exerted on a negative charge moving in the same direction.

• The magnitude of the magnetic force exerted on the moving particle is proportional to sin θ, where θ is the angle the particle’s velocity vector makes with the direction of B.

We can summarize these observations by writing the magnetic force in the form ^{= qv×B} which by definition of the cross product is perpendicular to both v and B. We can regard this equation as an operational definition of the magnetic field at some point in space. That is, the magnetic field is defined in terms of the force acting on a moving charged particle. is zero when v is parallel or antiparallel to B (e = 0 or 180°) and maximum when v is perpendicular to B (e = 90°).

There are several important differences between electric and magnetic forces:

• The electric force acts along the direction of the electric field, whereas the magnetic force acts perpendicular to the magnetic field.

• The electric force acts on a charged particle regardless of whether the particle is moving, whereas the magnetic force acts on a charged particle only when the particle is in motion.

• The electric force does work in displacing a charged particle, whereas the magnetic force associated with a steady magnetic field does no work when a particle is displaced because the force is perpendicular to the displacement.

The SI unit of magnetic field is the newton per coulomb-meter per second, which is called the Tesla (T). A non-SI magnetic field unit is called the Gauss (G).

If a magnetic force is exerted on a single charged particle when the particle moves through a magnetic field, a current-carrying wire also experiences a force when placed in a magnetic field.

Field created by a long, straight current-carrying wire:

Fig.8.

, where r is the distance from the center of the wire. The field vectors trace circles in planes perpendicular to the wire, going clockwise when viewed from along the direction of the current (Fig. 8). Field created by a single loop of current:

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Fig. 9.

he field vectors form a dipole-like pattern, coming through the loop and back around on the outside. Each oval path traced out by the field vectors appears clockwise if viewed from along the direction the current is going when it punches through it. There is no simple equation for the field at an arbitrary point in space, but for a point lying along the central axis perpendicular to the loop, the field is I , where b is the radius of the loop and z is the distance of the point from the plane of the loop (Fig. 9).

Field created by a solenoid (cylindrical coil) (Fig. 10):

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Fig.10.

solenoid is a long wire wound in the form of a helix. With this configuration, a reasonably uniform magnetic field can be produced in the space surrounded by the turns of wire when the solenoid carries a current. When the turns are closely spaced, each can be approximated as a circular loop, and the net magnetic field is the vector sum of the fields resulting from all the turns.

The field pattern is similar to that of a single loop, but for a long solenoid the paths of the field vectors become very straight on the inside of the coil and on the outside immediately next to the coil. For a long solenoid, the interior field also becomes very nearly uniform, with a magnitude of B = μ IN/l, where N is the number of turns of wire and l is the length of the solenoid. The field near the mouths or outside the coil is not constant and more difficult to calculate. For a long solenoid, the exterior field is much smaller than the interior field (from ‘Physics for Scientists and Engineers’).

Exercise 77. Answer the following questions.

1. How is a magnetic field created?

2. What symbol is used to represent a magnetic field?

3. What direction do the magnetic field lines point?

4. How can a magnetic field be defined?

5. What results do experiments on charged particles moving in a magnetic field give?

6. What is the magnetic force?

7. What are the differences between the electric and magnetic forces?

8. What is the unit of a magnetic field?

9. How is field created by a long straight current-carrying wire?

10. How is field created by a single circular loop of current?

11. How is field created by a solenoid?

Exercise 78. You can see eight sentences describing some characteristics of the electric and the magnetic fields. Write them down into the appropriate column.