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Moving Charges And Magnetism

Question
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(a) State Ampere’s circuital law. Use this law to obtain the expression for the magnetic field inside an air cored toroid of average radius ‘r’, having ‘n’ turns per unit length and carrying a steady current I.

(b) An observer to the left of a solenoid of N turns each of cross section area ‘A’ observes that a steady current I in it flows in the clockwise direction. Depict the magnetic field lines due to the solenoid specifying its polarity and show that it acts as a bar magnet of magnetic moment m = NIA. 

Solution

Ampere’s Law states that the line integral of magnetic field bold italic B with rightwards harpoon with barb upwards on top around any closed path in vacuum is straight mu subscript straight o times the total current through the closed path.

That is,    
contour integral straight B with rightwards harpoon with barb upwards on top. stack dl straight space with rightwards harpoon with barb upwards on top equals straight space straight mu subscript straight o straight I
Toroid is a hollow circular ring on which a wire of large number of turns is closely wound.

Let’s consider an air-cored toroid with center O. 

We have, 
contour integral straight B with rightwards harpoon with barb upwards on top. stack dl straight space with rightwards harpoon with barb upwards on top equals straight space contour integral straight B straight space dl straight space cosθ

Angle space straight theta space between space straight B with rightwards harpoon with barb upwards on top and straight space stack dl straight space with rightwards harpoon with barb upwards on top space is space zero.

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straight B cross times 2 πr straight space equals straight space straight mu subscript straight o cross times left parenthesis straight n cross times 2 πr right parenthesis straight I

rightwards double arrow                                  straight B straight space equals    straight mu subscript straight o nI comma space 

which is the magnetic field due to a toroid carrying current.

b) Given, current is flowing in the clockwise direction for an observer who is on the left side of the solenoid. Implies, left face of the solenoid is the South Pole and right face acts as the North Pole. The magnetic field lines are directed from south to north, inside the bar magnet. Hence, the magnetic field lines are directed from left to right in the solenoid. The figure below illustrates the direction of flow of current inside the solenoid. 
 

Magnetic moment of single current carrying loop = IA

Therefore,

Magnetic moment due to the whole solenoid is, m = N(IA)

Where, 

N is the number of turns of solenoid,

I is the current flowing through the loop, and

A is the area of the loop.