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Week 14- Ch 35- Electromagnetic Waves
Due: 11:45pm on Sunday, December 4, 2011
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Electric Field Due to Increasing Flux
Learning Goal: To work through a straightforward application of Faraday's law to find the EMF and the electric field surrounding a region of increasing flux Faraday's law describes how electric fields and electromotive forces are generated from changing magnetic fields. This problem is a prototypical example in which an increasing magnetic flux generates a finite line integral of the electric field around a closed loop that surrounds the changing magnetic flux through a surface bounded by that loop. A cylindrical iron rod with cross-sectional area is oriented with its symmetry axis coincident with the z axis of a cylindrical coordinate system as shown. It has a uniform magnetic field inside that varies according to . In other words, the magentic field is always in the positive z direction, and it has no other components. For your convenience, we restate Faraday's law here: , where is the line integral of the electric field, and the magnetic flux is given by , where is the angle between the magnetic field and the local normal to the surface bounded by the closed loop. Direction: The line integral and surface integral reverse their signs if the reference direction of or is reversed. The right-hand rule applies , then the fingers point along . You are free to
here: If the thumb of your right hand is taken along
take the loop anywhere you choose, although usually it makes sense to choose it to lie along the path of the circuit you are considering. Part A Find positive. Hint A.1 Selecting the loop Hint not displayed , the electromotive force (EMF) around a loop that is at distance from the z axis, where
is restricted to the region outside the