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Q.How will you induce an emf by changing the area enclosed by the coil ?

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Sliding a conducting rod along two parallel rails in a magnetic field steadily changes the area enclosed by the circuit, and by Faraday's law this changing flux induces an emf -- the motional emf ε=Bvl\varepsilon=Bvl.

1. Arrangement. Consider two straight, parallel conducting rails a distance ll apart, lying in a plane, placed in a region of uniform magnetic field BB perpendicular to that plane. A conducting rod PQPQ of length ll rests across the rails and is free to slide, completing the circuit with the rails and any external resistor/load.

2. Change in flux. The magnetic flux linked with the circuit is Φ=B⋅A\Phi = B\cdot A, where AA is the area enclosed between the rod and the closed end of the rails. If the rod is pulled with velocity vv, the enclosed area increases (or decreases) at the rate

dAdt=l v\dfrac{dA}{dt} = l\,v

so the flux changes at the rate

dΦdt=B l v\dfrac{d\Phi}{dt} = B\,l\,v

3. Induced emf (Faraday's Law). By Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction,

ε=−dΦdt=−B l v\varepsilon = -\dfrac{d\Phi}{dt} = -B\,l\,v

The magnitude of the induced emf is therefore

ε=Bvl\varepsilon = Bvl …

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