Conducting wire Definition and 29 Threads

What I have done: (a) If we start at ##R_5## then we have ##\Delta V=-\int_{R_5}^{R_1}\vec{E}\cdot d\vec{l}=-(\int_{R_5}^{R_4}\vec{0}\cdot d\vec{l}+\int_{R_4}^{R_3}\frac{\lambda}{\varepsilon_0}dl+\int_{R_3}^{R_2}\vec{0}\cdot d\vec{l}+\int_{R_2}^{R_1}\frac{\lambda}{\varepsilon_0}dl=-\lambda(...

On the Internet, I have read that the energy doesn't flow in the wire, for example in a very simple electric circuit made of a battery and a closed loop. When one computes the Poynting vector ##\vec S \propto \vec E \times \vec B##, one gets that its direction is towards the center of the wire...

why would the current flow through a person when it is already flowing through a copper conductor that is connecting the terminals.

When current flows through a copper wire, for example, a magnetic field is produced. What is the polarity of that field? I've seen an example with special relativity and how a positive charge would be deflected. Does that mean the field is negative to a stationary object? Every video I watch...

Homework Statement A small but very powerful bar magnet falls from rest under gravity through the center of a horizontal ring of conducting wire, as shown in the figure below (on the left). The speed-versus-time graph, in arbitrary units, of the magnet will correspond most closely to which of...

Hi While studying the shielded wires, i noticed that the magnetic field of the inner conductor can penetrate the shield conductor (can be calculated in the region 3). However, the boundary condition of the magnetic field at the surface (between dielectric and perfect conductor) of a perfect...

The electric field in a 2.5mm×2.5mm square aluminum wire is 2.1×10−2 V/m . What is the current in the wire? The answer is I=4.65A. But my question is according to Gauss law, the electric field inside the conductor is zero. then how come this question says "The electric field in a 2.5mm×2.5mm...

Homework Statement Homework Equations B = μi / 4πR is the equation for a semi-infinite straight wire The Attempt at a Solution I know that for each situation in a,b, and c I would use the equation I listed above, but I am not sure what I would plug in for R for each situation.

Homework Statement http://imgur.com/AotzH28 Two long, straight conducting wires with linear mass density λ are suspended from cords so that they are each horizontal, parallel to each other, and a distance d apart. The back ends of the wires are connected to each other by a slack,low-resistance...

Homework Statement 1. Two solid metal spheres are very far apart: sphere A (radius 44.1 cm) is charged to potential +2,346 Volts; sphere B (radius 63.6 cm) is charged to potential +8,848. Now, a long conducting wire connects the two spheres. When the charge has stopped moving, find the new...

Homework Statement Two long, straight, parallel wires carry currents that are directed perpendicular to the page as shown in Figure P30.9. Wire 1 carries a current I1 into the page (in the negative z direction) and passesthrough the x-axis at x a. Wire 2 passes through the x-axis at x 5 22a and...

Hello, all. I have been working on the following problem and was wondering if someone could check my work and provide some valuable input: Here is my work: What do you guys think about my approach to this problem?

When I connect filament(light bulb) in the electric circuit I can see the light. but when I connect only conducting wire(copper line) in the electric circuit I couldn't see the light from the conducting wire even though conducting wire less resistant than filament. How can I explain that...

There are two sphere of radius a and b and they are connected by conducting wire. Then why the electric potential becomes same of both the sphere?

When charged spheres are connected using a conducting wire, the charge will redistribute so as to make the potential constant because the connection makes them a single conductor and conductors are equipotential surfaces. My doubt was that if the spheres are of different size and have different...

Hey. If a wire is conducting electricity and all the current is concentrated at the edge of the wire, as in the skin effect, the magnetic field everywhere inside should be zero due to symmetry when applying biot-savarts law. However, according to ampere's law, it shouldn't. I take a...

We just went over Faraday's law in class and our teacher stressed how a changing flux is needed to induce an emf in some coil/loop/wire. I was just wondering then, how is an emf induced in a straight conducting wire moving at a constant velocity in a constant magnetic field? It seems as if...

Homework Statement A conducting wire runs directly over a horizontal compass in the north-south direction. When a current of magnitude I passes through the wire, the compass needle swings 20° to the west and stays in that position. When a current of 2I passes through the wire, the compass...

If I have a conducting wire of length l and a charge separation develops between one end of the wire and the other, will the electric field have a magnitude is equal to: V/l (voltage/length of wire)??

Why when two charged conductors connected by a conducting wire gain the same potential . Lets say we have two spheres of different charges why when we connect them by a single copper wire they gain the same potential Thanks in advance

Homework Statement A conducting wire has a resistivity, ρ as a function of its length, L, given by ρ=(ρ0)(L) where (ρ0) is constant. A is the cross-sectional area of the wire. the resistance of the wire would be A) [(ρ0)(L)]/A B) (ρ0)/(2A) C) [(ρ0)(L)]/(2A) D) [2(ρ0)(L^2)]/A E)...

Homework Statement Two spherical conductors of radii r1 and r2 are separated by a distance much greater than the radius of either sphere. The spheres are connected by a conducting wire. The charges on the sphere are in equilibrium are q1 and q2 respectively, they are uniformly charged. Find...

Suppose I have a wire with a net charge (lets say negative) in a uniform electric field from another source, such that the field lines are parallel to the wire. I want to work out the electric field surrounding the wire. Because the wire is conducting, the electric field inside the wire will...

Suppose that we have a wire that connects the two poles of a DC battery. The current produced indicates the presence of some Electric Field within the wire, having a constant magnitude and a direction that follows its path. Now the question is : What is the source of that Electric Field...

1. An 80-cm-long wire is made by welding a 5.50 mm-diameter, 20-cm-long copper wire to a 5.50 mm-diameter, 60-cm-long iron wire. What is the resistance of the composite wire? 2. p = resistivity, R = pL/A 3. r = 0.001375 m goes into A = pi*r2. I used the above equation for R separately for the...

Homework Statement The conductor is cylindrically shaped with a radius of R. The hole on the inside is also cylindrically shaped with a radius of R/2. If a cross-section of this conductor is placed on an x-y coordinate plane, the hole would be centered on the x-axis at a distance of R/2 from...

Homework Statement Three conducting spheres of radii a, b and c, respectively, are connected by negligibly thin conducting wires as shown in figure 4. Distances between spheres are much larger than their sizes. The electric field on the surface of the sphere of radius a is measured to be...

Homework Statement A long, straight conducting wire of radius R has a nonuniform current density J=J0*r/R, where J0 is a constant. The wire carries total current I. Find an expression for J_0 in terms of I and R. Find an expression for the magnetic field strength inside the wire at radius r...

Yo, d00dz, I can't remember how to find the electric field inside a conducting wire (actually a coaxial cable) Here's the exact text of the problem: A coaxial cable (inner radius a, outer radius b) is used as a transmission line between a battery E and a resistor R, as shown in Fig 19...