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    Experiment: A Smooth Thick Wire Is Free To Roll Along Two Smooth Conducting Rails. If Its Placed

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    A thick wire carrying a current is placed between the north and south poles of a U-shaped magnet. When the current is switched on, the interaction between the magnetic field and the current-carrying wire produces a catapult force that causes the wire to roll along two conducting rails. Reversing either the current or the magnetic field direction reverses the direction of the wire's motion.

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    Experiment: A Smooth Thick Wire Is Free To Roll Along Two Smooth Conducting Rails. If Its Placed

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    A thick wire carrying a current is placed between the north and south poles of a U-shaped magnet. When the current is switched on, the interaction between the magnetic field and the current-carrying wire produces a catapult force that causes the wire to roll along two conducting rails. Reversing either the current or the magnetic field direction reverses the direction of the wire's motion.

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    A thick wire carrying a current is placed between the north and south poles of a U-shaped magnet. When the current is switched on, the interaction between the magnetic field and the current-carrying wire produces a catapult force that causes the wire to roll along two conducting rails. Reversing either the current or the magnetic field direction reverses the direction of the wire's motion.

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    Experiment: A Smooth Thick Wire Is Free To Roll Along Two Smooth Conducting Rails. If Its Placed

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    A thick wire carrying a current is placed between the north and south poles of a U-shaped magnet. When the current is switched on, the interaction between the magnetic field and the current-carrying wire produces a catapult force that causes the wire to roll along two conducting rails. Reversing either the current or the magnetic field direction reverses the direction of the wire's motion.

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    The effects produce when the two magnetic fields interact is demonstrate in the setup shown in

    figure [R(i)] and [R(ii)] A thick piece of wire W carrying a current is thrown or catapulted out of
    the magnetic field of the magnadur magnets

    Experiment : A smooth thick wire is free to roll along two smooth conducting rails. If its placed
    between N – S of a U Shaped magnet.

    When the current is switched on:

    Low voltage dc supply + –

    Conducting rails thick wire insulator

    Field

    Motion

    Current

    Figure [R(ii)] The (catapult) force acting on a wire carrying a current in a magnetic field

     NB - When either the current or the magnetic field direction is reverse the direction of
    the (catapult force ) movement of the wire M, is reversed.
    Figure [R(i)] The (catapult) force acting on a wire carrying a current in a magnetic field

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