Exercise 22
A magnetic field covers a large region where a wire AB slides smoothly over two parallel conductors separated by a distance (Fig. ). The wires are in the plane. The wire AB (of length ) has resistance and the parallel wires have negligible resistance. If AB is moving with velocity , what is the current in the circuit. What is the force needed to keep the wire moving at constant velocity?

NCERT’s answer
Let us assume that the parallel wires at are \(\displaystyle y=0\) and \(\displaystyle y=d\). At \(\displaystyle t=0\), AB has \(\displaystyle x=0\) and moves with a velocity \(\displaystyle v \hat{\mathbf{i}}\).
At time \(\displaystyle t\), wire is at \(\displaystyle x(t)=v t\).
Motional e.m.f. \(\displaystyle =\left(B_o \sin \omega t\right) v d(-\hat{\mathbf{j}})\)
E.m.f due to change in field (along OBAC)
\[=-B_o \omega \cos \omega t x(t) d
\]
Total e.m.f \(\displaystyle =-B_o d[\omega x \cos (\omega t)+v \sin (\omega t)]\)
Along OBAC, Current (clockwise) \(\displaystyle =\frac{B_o d}{R}(\omega x \cos \omega t+v \sin \omega t)\)
Force needed along \(\displaystyle \hat{\mathbf{i}}=\frac{B_o d}{R}(\omega x \cos \omega t+v \sin \omega t) \times d \times B_o \sin \omega t\)
\[=\frac{B_o^2 d^2}{R}(\omega x \cos \omega t+v \sin \omega t) \sin \omega t .
\]

AB is at distance \(\displaystyle x\) from OC, \(\displaystyle \dfrac{dx}{dt}=v\). Both the changing area and the changing \(\displaystyle B\) contribute.
\[\Phi = B\,A = B_0\sin\omega t\cdot d\,x \;\;(\mathrm{Wb}) \]
\[\frac{d\Phi}{dt} = B_0 d\left(v\sin\omega t + \omega x\cos\omega t\right)\;\;(\mathrm{V}) \]
\[I = \frac{1}{R}\frac{d\Phi}{dt} = \frac{B_0 d}{R}\left(v\sin\omega t + \omega x\cos\omega t\right)\;\;(\mathrm{A}) \]
\[x=vt:\quad I = \frac{B_0 d\,v}{R}\left(\sin\omega t + \omega t\cos\omega t\right)\;\;(\mathrm{A}) \]\(\displaystyle \mathbf{B}\) is out of the page, so rising flux drives \(\displaystyle I\) clockwise (O \(\displaystyle \to\) C \(\displaystyle \to\) A \(\displaystyle \to\) B \(\displaystyle \to\) O); a negative value means anticlockwise.In AB the current runs A \(\displaystyle \to\) B, so the magnetic force is along \(\displaystyle -x\) and the applied force along \(\displaystyle +x\):\[F = I\,d\,B = I\,d\,B_0\sin\omega t\;\;(\mathrm{N}) \]
\[F = \frac{B_0^{2}d^{2}}{R}\,\sin\omega t\left(v\sin\omega t + \omega x\cos\omega t\right)\;\;(\mathrm{N}) \]
\[x=vt:\quad F = \frac{B_0^{2}d^{2}v}{R}\,\sin\omega t\left(\sin\omega t + \omega t\cos\omega t\right)\;\;(\mathrm{N}) \]Answer: \(\displaystyle I=\dfrac{B_0 d}{R}\left(v\sin\omega t+\omega x\cos\omega t\right)\), clockwise; \(\displaystyle F=\dfrac{B_0^{2}d^{2}}{R}\sin\omega t\left(v\sin\omega t+\omega x\cos\omega t\right)\) along \(\displaystyle +x\) (a negative value means along \(\displaystyle -x\)).