Magnetism Question 85

Question: Moment of inertia of a magnetic needle is 40 gm-cm2 has time period 3 seconds in earth’s horizontal field = $ 3.6\times {{10}^{-5}} $ weber/m2. Its magnetic moment will be

Options:

A) $ 0.5,A\times m^{2} $

B) $ 5,A\times m^{2} $

C) $ 0.250,A\times m^{2} $

D) $ 5\times 10^{2}A\times m^{2} $

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Answer:

Correct Answer: A

Solution:

$ T=2\pi \sqrt{\frac{I}{MB _{H}}} $

$ I=40gm-cm^{2}=400\times {{10}^{-8}}kg-m^{2} $
$ \

Therefore \ 3=2\pi \sqrt{\frac{400\times {{10}^{-8}}}{36\times {{10}^{-6}}\times M}} $
$ \Rightarrow \frac{1}{M}=\frac{9}{4{{\pi }^{2}}}\times \frac{36}{4}\Rightarrow M=0.5\ A\times m^{2} $