Saturday, 22 June 2013

How does a solenoid behave like a magnet

Q. No 8: How does a solenoid behave like a magnet? Can you determine the north and south poles of a current-carrying solenoid with the help of a bar magnet? Explain.
Ans:

Solenoid is coil having n number of turns of insulated copper wire. Magnetic field lines are produced around the solenoid when a current is passed through it. The magnetic field produced by it is similar to the magnetic field of a bar magnet. The field lines produced in a current-carrying solenoid is shown in the following figure.


When the north pole of a bar magnet is brought near to the end connected to the negative terminal of the battery, then the solenoid repels the bar magnet. It means the end of solenoid which is connected to the negative terminal of the battery behaves as north pole as like poles repel each other similarly the other and behaves as a south pole.

6 comments:

  1. Solenoid is coli having n number of turns of insulated copper wire . Magnetic field lines are produced around the solenoid when a current is passed through it.

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  2. Magnetic lines produced around the solenoid are same as the bar magnet and hence it behaves like bar magnet

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  3. When current pass through solenoid then magnetic field lines produced around the solenoid this phenomena after solenoid behaves like a magnet

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  4. Can you please tell the mechanism how solenoid behaves like magnet.... When current is passed through a cylindrical coiled copper wire how can it just behave like a magnet???

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  5. Is it compulsory that a current carrying solenoid behave like abar magnet only if the current flows in the solenoid and the magnetic field both direction are same

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  6. A solenoid behave like a magnet when electric current passes through it. Such a solenoid is called electromagnet.

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