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Chapter 29

Magnetic Fields

29.1 Analysis Model: Particle in a Field


(Magnetic)
29.2 Motion of a Charged Particle in a
Uniform Magnetic Field
29.4 Magnetic Force Acting on a Current-
Carrying Conductor

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A Brief History of Magnetism
⚫13thcentury BC
⚫ Chinese used a compass

⚫ Uses a magnetic needle

⚫ Probably an invention of Arabic or Indian origin

⚫800 BC Greeks

⚫ Discovered magnetite (Fe3O4) attracts pieces of iron

⚫1269

⚫ Pierre de Maricourt found that the direction of a needle near a


spherical natural magnet formed lines that encircled the sphere .
⚫ The lines also passed through two points diametrically opposed
to each other and he called the points poles
⚫1600 William Gilbert

⚫ Expanded experiments with magnetism to a variety of


materials
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⚫ Suggested the Earth itself was a large permanent magnet
A Brief History of Magnetism
⚫1750

⚫ Experimenters showed that magnetic poles exert attractive or


repulsive forces on each other.
⚫1819

⚫ Found an electric current deflected a compass needle

⚫1820’s

⚫ Faraday and Henry

⚫ Further connections between electricity and magnetism

⚫ A changing magnetic field creates an electric field.

⚫ Maxwell

⚫ A changing electric field produces a magnetic field.

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Hans Christian Oersted
⚫1777 – 1851
⚫Discovered the relationship
between electricity and
magnetism
⚫An electric current in a wire
deflected a nearby compass
needle
⚫The first evidence of the
connection between electric and
magnetic phenomena
⚫Also the first to prepare pure
aluminum

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Magnetic Poles
⚫Every magnet, regardless of its shape, has two poles.
⚫ Called north and south poles
⚫ Poles exert forces on one another
⚫ Similar to the way electric charges exert forces on each other

⚫ Like poles repel each other N-N or S-S


⚫ Unlike poles attract each other N-S

⚫The poles received their names due to the way a magnet behaves in
the Earth’s magnetic field.
⚫If a bar magnet is suspended so that it can move freely, it will rotate.

⚫ The magnetic north pole points toward the Earth’s north


geographic pole.
⚫ This means the Earth’s north geographic pole is a magnetic
south pole.
⚫ Similarly, the Earth’s south geographic pole is a magnetic
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Magnetic Poles
⚫The force between two poles varies as the inverse square of the
distance between them.
⚫A single magnetic pole has never been isolated.
⚫ In other words, magnetic poles are always found in pairs.
⚫ All attempts so far to detect an isolated magnetic pole has been
unsuccessful.
⚫ No matter how many times a permanent magnetic is cut in
two, each piece always has a north and south pole.

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Magnetic Fields
⚫Reminder: an electric field surrounds any electric charge
⚫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.

⚫A magnetic field is a vector quantity


⚫Symbolized by B

⚫Direction is given by the direction a north pole of a compass needle


points in that location
⚫Magnetic field lines can be used to show how the field lines, as traced
out by a compass, would look.

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Magnetic Field Lines, Bar Magnet
Example
⚫The compass can be used to
trace the field lines.
⚫The lines outside the magnet
point from the North pole to the
South pole.

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Earth’s Magnetic Poles
⚫More proper terminology would be that a magnet has “north-seeking” and
“south-seeking” poles.
⚫The north-seeking pole points to the north geographic pole.

⚫ This would correspond to the Earth’s south magnetic pole.

⚫The south-seeking pole points to the south geographic pole.

⚫ This would correspond to the Earth’s north magnetic pole.

⚫The configuration of the Earth’s magnetic field is very much like the one that
would be achieved by burying a gigantic bar magnet deep in the Earth’s
interior.
⚫The source of the Earth’s magnetic field is
likely convection currents in the Earth’s
core.
⚫There is strong evidence that the
magnitude of a planet’s magnetic field is
related to its rate of rotation.
⚫The direction of the Earth’s magnetic field
reverses periodically.
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Definition of Magnetic Field
⚫The magnetic field at some point in space can be defined in terms of the
magnetic force, FB .
⚫The magnetic force will be exerted on a charged particle moving with a
velocity, v .
⚫ Assume (for now) there are no gravitational or electric fields present.

Properties of a Force on a Charge Moving in a Magnetic Field


⚫The magnitude FB of the magnetic force exerted on the particle is proportional
to the charge, q, and to the speed, v, of the particle.
⚫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 q  0 with the field, the
force acts in a direction perpendicular to the plane formed by the velocity and
the field.
⚫The magnetic force exerted on a positive charge is in the direction opposite
the direction of the magnetic force exerted on a negative charge moving in the
same direction.
⚫The magnitude of the magnetic force is proportional to sin q, where q is the
angle the particle’s velocity makes with the direction of the magnetic field. 10
Direction of magnetic force

⚫The properties can be summarized in a vector equation: FB = qv  B

⚫ FB is the magnetic force


⚫ q is the charge
⚫ v is the velocity of the moving charge
⚫ B is the magnetic field
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Direction: Right-Hand Rule
⚫Alternative to Rule
⚫This rule is based on the right-hand
⚫The force on a positive charge
rule for the cross product.
extends outward from the palm.
⚫Your thumb is in the direction of the
⚫The advantage of this rule is that the
force if q is positive.
force on the charge is in the direction
⚫The force is in the opposite direction
you would push on something with
of your thumb if q is negative.
your hand.
⚫The force on a negative charge is in
the opposite direction.

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More About Magnitude of F
⚫The magnitude of the magnetic force on a
charged particle is FB = |q| v B sin q
⚫ q is the smaller angle between v and B
⚫ FB is zero when the field and velocity are parallel
or antiparallel
⚫ q = 0 or 180o
⚫ FB is a maximum when the field and velocity are
perpendicular
⚫ q = 90o

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Differences Between Electric and
Magnetic Fields
⚫Direction of force
⚫ The electric force acts along the direction of the electric field.
⚫ The magnetic force acts perpendicular to the magnetic field.
⚫Motion
⚫ The electric force acts on a charged particle regardless of
whether the particle is moving.
⚫ The magnetic force acts on a charged particle only when the
particle is in motion.
⚫Work

⚫ The electric force does work in displacing a charged particle.

⚫ The magnetic force associated with a steady magnetic field does


no work when a particle is displaced.
⚫ This is because the force is perpendicular to the displacement
of its point of application.
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Work in Fields
⚫The kinetic energy of a charged particle moving through a magnetic
field cannot be altered ( ‫ )تتغير‬by the magnetic field alone.
⚫When a charged particle moves with a given velocity through a
magnetic field, the field can alter the direction of the velocity, but not the
speed or the kinetic energy.

Units of Magnetic Field


⚫The SI unit of magnetic field is the tesla (T).
Wb N N
T = 2 = =
m C ( m / s ) A  m
⚫ Wb is a weber

⚫A non-SI commonly used unit is a gauss (G).

⚫ 1 T = 104 G

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Notation Notes
⚫When vectors are perpendicular
to the page, dots and crosses are
used.
⚫ The dots represent the
arrows coming out of the
page.
⚫ The crosses represent the
arrows going into the page.
⚫The same notation applies to
other vectors.

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Example: Determine the initial direction of the deflection of charged
particles as they enter the magnetic fields shown in Figure

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Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field
⚫Consider a particle moving in an external
magnetic field with its velocity perpendicular to
the field.
⚫The force is always directed toward the center
of the circular path.
⚫The magnetic force causes a centripetal
acceleration, changing the direction of the
velocity of the particle.
⚫Use the particle under a net force and
a particle in uniform circular motion models.
⚫Equating the magnetic and centripetal forces:

mv 2
FB = qvB =
r
⚫Solving for r:
mv
r=
qB

⚫ r is proportional to the linear momentum of the particle and


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inversely proportional to the magnetic field.
Motion of Charged Particle

v qB
⚫The angular speed of the particle is ω= =
r m
The angular speed, w, is also referred to as the cyclotron

frequency.
⚫The period of the motion is T =
2πr 2π 2πm
= =
v ω qB

⚫Ifa charged particle moves in a


magnetic field at some arbitrary angle
with respect to the field, its path is a
helix.

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Charged Particles Moving in Electric
and Magnetic Fields
⚫In many applications, charged particles will move in the
presence of both magnetic and electric fields.
⚫In that case, the total force is the sum of the forces due to the
individual fields.
⚫ The total force is called the Lorentz force.

⚫In general:
F = qE + qv  B

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Cyclotron
⚫A cyclotron is a device that can
accelerate charged particles to very
high speeds.
⚫The energetic particles produced are
used to bombard atomic nuclei and
thereby produce reactions.
⚫These reactions can be analyzed by
researchers.

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Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying
Conductor
⚫A force is exerted on a current-carrying wire placed in a magnetic field.
⚫ The current is a collection of many charged particles in motion.

⚫The direction of the force is given by the right-hand rule.

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Force on a Wire, Equation
⚫The magnetic force is exerted on
each moving charge in the wire.
⚫ F = qvd  B
⚫The total force is the product of the
force on one charge and the number
of charges.
(
⚫ F = qvd  B nAL )
⚫In terms of the current, this becomes
FB = IL  B
⚫ I is the current.
⚫ L is a vector that points in the direction of the current.
⚫ Its magnitude is the length L of the segment.

⚫ B is the magnetic field.

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Force on a Wire, Arbitrary Shape
⚫Consider a small segment of the
wire, ds

⚫The force exerted on this segment is


dFB = I ds  B
⚫The total force is
b
FB = I  ds  B
a

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Example: A wire bent into a semicircle of radius R forms a closed circuit and carries
a current I. The wire lies in the xy plane, and a uniform magnetic field is directed
along the positive y axis as in Figure. Find the magnitude and direction of the
magnetic force acting on the straight portion of the wire and on the curved portion.

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Example: A wire bent as shown and carries a current I. The wire lies in the xy plane,
and a uniform magnetic field (B = 0.5 T) is directed along the positive y axis as in
Figure. Find the magnitude and direction of the magnetic force acting on the wire.

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