Lancelot59
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I'm given the following situation:
The suspended wire has a radius of 1.20mm (0.0012m), and is being held up by the magnetic fields generated by the bottom two wires which have a current of 50A each.
I started with a simple force setup:
F_{g}=2F_{M}sin(60)
mg=2F_{M}sin(60)
F_{M}=\frac{mg}{2sin(60)})
To get the mass of the wire I assumed it was made of copper, the density being 8.94 g/cm^3. Not being given any information about the length I just decided to ignore it.
m=d*v
m=(89.2 \frac{kg}{m^{3}})*\pir^{2}*length
m=(89.2 \frac{kg}{m^{3}})*\pi(0.0006)^{2}*length
m=0.000100883kg
So the total weight force pulling the top wire down is: 0.0009896622N
Now to get the magnetic force I treated the wires as infinitely long wires:
F=I_{2}lB and then for the magnetic field generated from each wire:B=\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{2\pi r}
Then sticking everything together, and doubling the magnetic field:
F_{M}=I_{2}l2B
F_{M}=I_{2}l2(\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{2\pi r})
Putting that into the net force equation:
F_{g}=2(I_{2}l2(\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{2\pi r}))sin(60)
F_{g}=2(I_{2}l(\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{\pi r}))sin(60)
So I substituted in the values and solved for I2. I decided to ignore the length term.
0.0009896622=2(I_{2}l(\frac{(4\pi x10^{-7})(50.0A)}{\pi (0.035m)}))sin(60)
I wound up with I2 being 0.999918041, which is way off. After guessing a few times I got the correct answer of 199 from the system after feeding it 200. Where did I go wrong?
The suspended wire has a radius of 1.20mm (0.0012m), and is being held up by the magnetic fields generated by the bottom two wires which have a current of 50A each.
I started with a simple force setup:
F_{g}=2F_{M}sin(60)
mg=2F_{M}sin(60)
F_{M}=\frac{mg}{2sin(60)})
To get the mass of the wire I assumed it was made of copper, the density being 8.94 g/cm^3. Not being given any information about the length I just decided to ignore it.
m=d*v
m=(89.2 \frac{kg}{m^{3}})*\pir^{2}*length
m=(89.2 \frac{kg}{m^{3}})*\pi(0.0006)^{2}*length
m=0.000100883kg
So the total weight force pulling the top wire down is: 0.0009896622N
Now to get the magnetic force I treated the wires as infinitely long wires:
F=I_{2}lB and then for the magnetic field generated from each wire:B=\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{2\pi r}
Then sticking everything together, and doubling the magnetic field:
F_{M}=I_{2}l2B
F_{M}=I_{2}l2(\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{2\pi r})
Putting that into the net force equation:
F_{g}=2(I_{2}l2(\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{2\pi r}))sin(60)
F_{g}=2(I_{2}l(\frac{\mu_{0}I_{1}}{\pi r}))sin(60)
So I substituted in the values and solved for I2. I decided to ignore the length term.
0.0009896622=2(I_{2}l(\frac{(4\pi x10^{-7})(50.0A)}{\pi (0.035m)}))sin(60)
I wound up with I2 being 0.999918041, which is way off. After guessing a few times I got the correct answer of 199 from the system after feeding it 200. Where did I go wrong?