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Q&A questions to be answered on the Physics 15b website before 11pm on Monday, May
9:
A: I 24; 000 amp, and the field at 2 meters is larger than the earth’s field.
B: I 24; 000 amp, and the field at 2 meters is smaller than the earth’s field.
C: I 480; 000 amp, and the field at 2 meters is larger than the earth’s field.
D: I 480; 000 amp, and the field at 2 meters is smaller than the earth’s field.
E: None of the above.
A : 220 amp
B : 2:2 amp
C : 0:22 amp
D: 0:022 amp
E : None of the above.
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Problems due at the beginning of class on Thursday, May 12 —
This is more plug and chug than most of our problems, but the subject is so interesting that I
couldn’t resist. You should certainly make it more interesting by carefully explaining all the as-
sumptions you make. One could also ask a number of evolution/physics questions about this
system. Why, for example, has evolution chosen crystals of this particular size and shape for the
bacterium?
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13.3. An infinite thin wire carrying current I runs through the center axis of a solid cylinder
with radius R and length `. We choose the coordinate system to put the wire along the z axis with
the center of the cylinder at the origin, as shown in the figure.
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Now suppose that our cylinder is made of a continuous material whose magnetic susceptibility
depends on the distance from the z axis, as
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< f (r) for r2 R2 and `=2 z `=2
m (~r ) = > (13.3.1)
: 0 otherwise
where q
r = x2 + y 2 (13.3.2)
is the perpendicular distance from the z axis.
3-a. Find the magnetization in Cartesian coordinates everywhere and justify your result.
3-b. Assuming that the function f (r) is continuous for 0<r<R, find the bound current every-
where and justify your result.