Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Physics

Chapter

Magnetism and Matter

Question:

Case : Read the passage and answer the question(s).

Magnetic Field of a hollow wire with a constant current is homogenous. Curves in the graph shown, give, as functions of distance r, the magnitude B of the magnetic field inside and outside four long wires a, b, c and d carrying currents that are uniformly distributed across the cross sections of the wires. Overlapping portions of the plots are indicated by double labels.

What is true about magnetic field if a direct current I flows along the length of an infinitely long straight thin walled pipe?

Options:

uniform throughout the pipe but non zero  

zero only along the axis of the pipe

zero at any point inside the pipe

maximum at the centre and minimum at the edges3

Correct Answer:

zero at any point inside the pipe

Explanation:

The amperian loop imagined inside the pipe will not enclose any current and hence using ampere circuital law, magnetic field is zero.