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Moving Charges And Magnetism

Question
CBSEENPH12037657

State Biot-Savart law Using Biot-Savart law, derive an expression for the magnetic field at the centre of a circular coil of number of turns ‘N’, radius ‘r’ carrying a current.

Solution

Biot-savart law states that, the magnetic field induction dB at a point due to current element is 

                dB = μo4π I dl sinθr2 
where,
I.dl is the current element,
r is the distance of point from the current elemnt and,
θ is the angle between dl and r.

Expression for magnetic field at the centre of a circular coil :

Consider a circular coil of radius 'r' with center O. Let, I be the current flowing in the circular coil. Assume, that the current coil is made of a large number of current elements each of length 'dl' .
current element = I.dl 
Now, as per Biot Savart law we have,  

               dB = μo4π I dl sinθr2
Since, the angle between dl and r is 900.
Therefore,
                     dB = μo4π I dlr2 
Thus, 

B= dB = μo4π I dl r2 = μo4π Ir2dl
But, 
dl = total length of circular coil        = circumference of current loop = 2π r 

Therefore,
                  B = μO4π 2πnIr  
where,
n is the number of turns in the coil.