Electromagnetic Induction Problem

tigerguy

A piece of copper wire is formed into a single circular loop of radius 14 cm. A magnetic field is oriented parallel to the normal to the loop, and it increases from 0 to 0.75 T in a time of 0.45 s. The wire has a resistance per unit length of 3.3 x 10-2 ohm/m. What is the average electrical energy dissipated in the resistance of the wire.

For some reason, I keep on getting the wrong answer. I'm using the formula, E=NBA/t, where B= 0.75 T, and A=0.0616 m^2. When calculating that I get 0.10 V, and then using that, I get a current of 21.65 C. Then I use, P=IV, and I get an answer of 2.16 Watts, which divided by 0.45 secods is equal to 4.8 J.

This answer is wrong, so I'm not sure where I am going wrong. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Andrew Mason

Quote by tigerguy

A piece of copper wire is formed into a single circular loop of radius 14 cm. A magnetic field is oriented parallel to the normal to the loop, and it increases from 0 to 0.75 T in a time of 0.45 s. The wire has a resistance per unit length of 3.3 x 10-2 ohm/m. What is the average electrical energy dissipated in the resistance of the wire.

For some reason, I keep on getting the wrong answer. I'm using the formula, E=NBA/t, where B= 0.75 T, and A=0.0616 m^2. When calculating that I get 0.10 V, and then using that, I get a current of 21.65 C. Then I use, P=IV, and I get an answer of 2.16 Watts, which divided by 0.45 secods is equal to 4.8 J.

I don't see how you get 21.65 amp. (I assume you mean C/sec=Ampere). The emf is .1 volt. The resistance is .029 ohms. So the current would be 3.45 amp. The power, then, is VI = .345 watt. The total electrical energy (I am not sure what "average" means) dissipated in .45 seconds would be .345*.45 = .155 J.

AM

Edit: corrected multiplication error in last line.

tigerguy

How did you figure out the resistance? I'm a little confused on that step (I think thats where I went wrong).

Thanks

tigerguy

I actually redid the calculations. Using the same steps where V= 0.1026 and resistance of 0.029 ohms, I get 0.36 W. I then multiplied by .45 seconds and I got 0.16 J.

But, this is wrong, so I'm still confused.

Andrew Mason

Quote by tigerguy

How did you figure out the resistance? I'm a little confused on that step (I think thats where I went wrong).

Thanks

The resistance is given in ohms/metre. Just multiply .033 by the length of the wire to get the resistance of this wire.

AM

Andrew Mason

Quote by tigerguy

I actually redid the calculations. Using the same steps where V= 0.1026 and resistance of 0.029 ohms, I get 0.36 W. I then multiplied by .45 seconds and I got 0.16 J.

But, this is wrong, so I'm still confused.

Perhaps they want the average rate of dissipation of energy, which would be .36 J./sec. The term "average energy dissipated" does not make sense in this context.

AM

jesusburger

induced emf = change in flux/change in time = (pi*(.14^2)*.75)/.45 = .1026V
Resistance = circumference*resistance/distance = (2*pi*.14).033 = .029
V=IR, so I=V/R = .1026/.029 = 3.5379
P=IV, so P = 3.5379*.1026 = .363
power (watts) is in Joules per second, so p=j/t or j=p*t = .363*.45 = .1633 Joules
(just to sum things up - I had a question worded exactly the same on a homework and this method worked)

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tigerguy	Electromagnetic Induction Problem I actually redid the calculations. Using the same steps where V= 0.1026 and resistance of 0.029 ohms, I get 0.36 W. I then multiplied by .45 seconds and I got 0.16 J. But, this is wrong, so I'm still confused.