Magnetic Field At The Centre Of A Circular Coil
A circular coil used in a school electromagnet experiment has 50 closely wound turns of radius 10cm and carries a current of 2A. What is the magnetic field produced at the centre of the coil?
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- Subject
- physics
- Chapter
- magnetic effects of current and magnetism
- Topic
- magnetic field at the centre of a circular coil
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Year
- 2025
Solution
Correct Answer:
6.28×10−4T
For a tightly wound circular coil, each turn contributes equally at the centre, so the Biot-Savart result for one loop is multiplied by the number of turns: B=2Rμ0NI. The field is uniform in direction along the axis at the centre and adds up turn by turn. Substituting N=50, I=2A, R=0.10m and μ0=4π×10−7, we obtain B=2(0.10)(4π×10−7)(50)(2)=0.24π×10−5=6.28×10−4T. The option 1.26×10−5T omits the factor of N, treating it as a single turn. The option 3.14×10−4T mistakenly uses 4R in the denominator. The option 2.50×10−3T confuses this geometry with a solenoid formula. This relation is the standard NCERT expression for the centre of a current loop, distinct from the axial-point formula. A magnitude check shows 10−4T, reasonable for fifty turns carrying a few amperes. Physically, this turn-by-turn addition is what makes coils so useful as compact field sources in instruments and electromagnets. Because the centre-of-loop field scales inversely with radius, a smaller coil with the same current and turns produces a stronger central field, a trade-off engineers exploit when designing deflection coils and laboratory magnets. The direction of the central field again follows the right-hand rule applied to the circulating current around the loop.
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