Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-physics-2-paper-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/11/c/solution

For the imposed electric current , Faraday's law gives the self-induced electromotive force
The externally applied terminal voltage, with the passive sign convention, has the opposite sign:
Thus the terminal voltage leads the electric current by . The instantaneous input power is
An ideal inductor alternately stores magnetic energy and returns it to the source. Real winding electrical resistance would add mean Joule heating ; the ideal zero result assumes that loss is neglected.

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