JEE Main 2025 — Magnetic Effects of Current Question with Solution
JEE Main 2025 (28 Jan Shift 1)
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Consider a long thin conducting wire carrying a uniform current I. A particle having mass " M " and charge " " is released at a distance " " from the wire with a speed along the direction of current in the wire. The particle gets attracted to the wire due to magnetic force. The particle turns round when it is at distance from the wire. The value of is [ is vacuum permeability]
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$\begin{aligned} & \mathrm{zdz}=-\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{x}} \mathrm{dv}_{\mathrm{x}} \\ & \frac{\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{x}} \mathrm{dv}_x}{\sqrt{\mathrm{v}_0^2-\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{x}}^2}}=\frac{-\mathrm{zdz}}{\mathrm{z}}=-\mathrm{dz} \end{aligned}$ then integral becomes $\begin{aligned} & -\int_{\mathrm{v}_0}^0 \mathrm{dz}=-\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}} \ln \frac{\mathrm{x}_1}{\mathrm{a}} \\ & \mathrm{v}_0=-\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}} \ln \frac{\mathrm{x}_1}{\mathrm{a}} \end{aligned}$ For B C $\begin{aligned} & \overrightarrow{\mathrm{v}}=-v_x \hat{\mathrm{i}}-v_y \hat{\mathrm{j}} \\ & \overrightarrow{\mathrm{~B}}=\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{I}}{2 \pi \mathrm{r}}(-\hat{\mathrm{k}}) \\ & \overrightarrow{\mathrm{F}}=\mathrm{q}(\overrightarrow{\mathrm{v}} \times \overrightarrow{\mathrm{B}})=\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi r}\left(-v_x \hat{j}+v_y \hat{\mathrm{i}}\right) \end{aligned}$ $\begin{aligned} & \mathrm{a}_{\mathrm{x}}=+\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}} \frac{\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{y}}}{\mathrm{r}} \quad \mathrm{a}_{\mathrm{y}}=-\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}} \cdot \frac{\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{x}}}{\mathrm{r}} \\ & \frac{\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{x}} \mathrm{dv}_{\mathrm{x}}}{\mathrm{dr}}=\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}} \frac{\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{y}}}{\mathrm{r}} \\ & \int_{v_0}^0 \frac{\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{x}} \mathrm{dv}_{\mathrm{x}}}{\sqrt{\mathrm{v}_0^2-\mathrm{v}_{\mathrm{x}}^2}}=\frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}} \int_{\mathrm{x_1}}^{\mathrm{x}}\frac{dr}{r} \end{aligned}$ $\begin{aligned} & \frac{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}} \ln \frac{\mathrm{x}}{\mathrm{x}_1}=-\int_0^{\mathrm{v}_0} \mathrm{~d} \mathrm{z}=-\mathrm{v}_0 \\ & \mathrm{x}=\mathrm{x}_1 \mathrm{e}^{-\frac{2 \pi \mathrm{~m}_0}{\mu_0 \mathrm{Iq}}} \ldots \ldots \text { (2) } \end{aligned}$ From equation 1 and 2
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