Q.(a) A closed loop is held stationary in the magnetic field between the north and south poles of two permanent magnets held fixed. Can we hope to generate current in the loop by using very strong magnets?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Primary: induction needs a changing flux, and neither a stationary loop in a static (however strong) magnetic field nor a loop sitting in a purely electric field has any changing magnetic flux to induce an EMF from. Alternative: a transformer works by linking two coils' fluxes so a changing primary current induces an EMF in the secondary.
Primary (a) — Stationary loop between very strong magnets
Faraday's law: . For a loop held stationary in a magnetic field that is itself constant in time, does not change (), no matter how strong the field is. So no current can be generated, however powerful the magnets — strength of alone is irrelevant without a change in flux (achieved instead by moving the loop, changing the field, or changing the loop's orientation/area).
Primary (b) — Loop moving through a constant electric field between capacitor plates
Electromagnetic induction (Faraday's law) concerns changing magnetic flux, not electric flux. Here there is no magnetic field anywhere in the setup — only a (static) electric field between the capacitor plates. Since throughout, at all times regardless of the loop's position (wholly inside, partially outside, or anywhere else), so:
- No current is induced when wholly inside.
- No current is induced when partially outside either. In both cases the reasoning is the same: Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction has nothing to act on here, since there is no magnetic flux linked with the loop at all. …
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