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Acompass needle free to turn in a horizontal plane is placed at thecentre of circular coil of 30 turns andradius 12 cm. The coil is in a vertical plane making an angle of 45ºwith the magnetic meridian. When the current in the coil is 0.35 A,the needle points west to east.(a) Determine thehorizontal component of the earth’s magnetic field at thelocation.(b) The currentin the coil is reversed, and the coil is rotated about its verticalaxis by an angle of 90º in the anticlockwise sense looking fromabove. Predict the direction of the needle. Take the magneticdeclination at the places to be zero.

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A
compass needle free to turn in a horizontal plane is placed at the
centre of circular coil of 30 turns and

radius 12 cm. The coil is in a vertical plane making an angle of 45º
with the magnetic meridian. When the current in the coil is 0.35 A,
the needle points west to east.



(a) Determine the
horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic field at the
location.



(b) The current
in the coil is reversed, and the coil is rotated about its vertical
axis by an angle of 90º in the anticlockwise sense looking from
above. Predict the direction of the needle. Take the magnetic
declination at the places to be zero.



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