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Read sections 11.1 through 11.4:
Inductance and Magnetic Energy (PDF - 1MB)
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How does a circuit containing a solenoid work, from the point of view of Faraday's Law? Consider a circuit carrying current I, consisting of a battery, a resistor, and a solenoid with N turns and height l. What is the magnetic field inside the solenoid? Use Ampere's Law without the displacement term to calculate this field. Now apply Faraday's Law to this circuit, choosing a closed loop for Faraday's Law carefully. You will find that choosing an open surface whose boundary is this closed loop is difficult, so think carefully about this. You will in this process derive an equation for the self-inductance of the solenoid.
Now consider a circuit consisting of a battery and a resistor and a solenoid which has been in place for a long time. At t = 0, we close a switch that cuts the battery of the circuit, so that we have left only a closed circuit containing the resistor and the solenoid. Use Faraday's Law to find the current in this closed circuit as a function of time.
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An ideal transformer is connected to a 120 V (root mean square) power supply. We want this transformer to supply 15,600 V (rms) to a light fixture. We have a fuse in the primary circuit that for safety we want to blow when the rms current in the secondary circuit exceeds 10 milliamps. What is the ratio of the number of turns in the secondary to the number of turns in the primary? What power must be supplied to the transformer to get a 10 milliamp current in the secondary circuit. What rms current rating should the fuse in the primary circuit have?
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