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Force on a current carrying wire placed in a magnetic field
Question

A metal wire of mass m slides without friction on two rails spaced at a distance d apart. The track lies in a vertical uniform magnetic field B. A constant current I flows along one rail, across the wire and back down the other rail. If the wire is initially at rest, the time taken by it to move through a distance x along the track is 

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Solution

Force acting on the wire is
 F = IdB                        a = IdB/m
x=12at2
t=2xa=2xmIdB
 

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