Write the wire diameter as to distinguish it from other geometric labels. Its cross-sectional area is , and the total wire length is . From the electrical resistivity, its electrical resistance is
While the loop straddles the boundary, let be the height of each vertical side remaining in the magnetic field. The linked magnetic flux has magnitude , with . Faraday's law therefore gives . Neglecting the loop's self-inductance, Ohm's law gives
The into-page magnetic flux is decreasing, so Lenz's law requires a clockwise electric current as viewed in the diagram. If the loop is wholly inside a uniform magnetic field, or wholly outside it, its magnetic flux is constant and this induced electromotive force is zero. During a rapid transient one should instead solve ; at the assumed steady speed the same boxed relation holds.
Let and choose the rotating area normal to coincide initially with . At time its angle to the applied magnetic field is , so the external magnetic flux is . Faraday's law therefore gives
In the high-electrical resistance approximation, neglecting the loop's self-inductance, Ohm's law gives
The displayed signs specify positive circulation by the chosen normal; reversing the reference circulation reverses both signs. The high-electrical resistance assumption is quantitatively if the loop has self-inductance . Otherwise the current lags the induced electromotive force and must be obtained from .
For a long air-cored solenoid, Ampère's law applied to a rectangular loop running inside and outside the winding gives , with the external magnetic field negligible away from the ends. Hence along the winding axis, where . Each turn links magnetic flux with , so the total magnetic flux linkage is . It follows that
Here , and , so and
The value uses the stated long-solenoid approximation and ignores end corrections and winding resistance.
Orient the ring's area normal with positive external magnetic flux. Faraday's law gives the applied electromotive force
The ring's self-inductance opposes changes in its electric current. With positive electrical resistance , Kirchhoff's voltage law therefore gives . Define . The periodic steady state is
The second result follows from Joule heating, , and . For unspecified initial conditions, add a transient ; the displayed time average is over the periodic steady state after that transient has decayed. The inductor temporarily stores and returns energy, with no net storage change over one complete cycle.
Take an electric current in the long solenoid. Away from its ends, Ampère's circuital law gives the approximately uniform magnetic field
Here is the vacuum permeability; an air core is understood. Each turn of the short surrounding coil encloses the magnetic flux . Thus its magnetic flux linkage is , and the mutual inductance is
The short coil lies in the nearly uniform central magnetic field; its own axial length therefore does not enter. With consistent winding orientations, Faraday's law of induction gives . Reversing a winding reverses this signed coupling, while the stated magnitude is unchanged.
Let be the angle between the coil's area normal and the magnetic field. Its magnetic flux linkage is . Consequently Faraday's law of induction gives
The sign refers to the winding orientation used to define the normal. The initial phase depends on the chosen time origin; one can set it to zero when the normal first points along . The minimum absolute value is zero, attained at : the coil's normal is parallel or antiparallel to the -axis, and the plane of the coil is perpendicular to that axis. At this orientation the magnetic flux is extremal and its derivative with respect to time vanishes.
At the terminal velocity, the acceleration in iii vanishes. Thus
For and nonzero , the magnetic drag increases linearly with speed and this terminal state is stable. Horizontal rails have no gravitational drive. Vertical rails have no linked vertical magnetic flux change, so the model gives free fall rather than a finite terminal velocity.
Faraday's law of induction states that the oriented electromotive force around a closed material circuit is minus the rate of change of its linked magnetic flux:
The surface orientation and circuit direction obey the right-hand rule. The minus sign expresses Lenz's law: the induced electric current, when allowed to flow, produces a magnetic field opposing the change of linked magnetic flux. For a stationary circuit this reduces to .
The source's “Lorenz force” is the Lorentz force, . A wire element of cross-section contains carriers of charge with drift velocity . Adding their magnetic forces and using gives
for a straight wire in a uniform magnetic field. The length vector follows conventional electric current, irrespective of the carrier sign.
For the unlabelled upward-motion request, define down the slope, across the rails and out of their plane. Choose the vertical magnetic field as . An electric current across the bar in direction gives a horizontal magnetic force . The other forces are weight and the rail normal force . Uniform upward velocity requires
Consequently
Each symmetric rail supplies half of . The electric current must make point horizontally toward the uphill side; for the coordinates just defined it flows along . Reversing the vertical magnetic field reverses this current direction. The external supply must maintain that electric current against the motional electromotive force during ascent. For , no finite horizontal magnetic force can support uniform motion along the vertical rails.
Faraday's law of induction states that the induced electromotive force around an oriented closed circuit equals the negative rate of change of linked magnetic flux. For a stationary circuit,
Here is electric field, is magnetic flux density, and the oriented surface has the circuit as its boundary. For identical series turns, replace by the total flux linkage . Lenz's law supplies the sign: an induced electric current opposes the change of linked magnetic flux, in agreement with conservation of energy.
If the wire moves with local velocity , the more general electromotive force includes the magnetic Lorentz force per unit electric charge:
The boundary and surface orientations in both expressions are related by the right-hand rule.
In the long-solenoid approximation, the internal magnetic flux density is uniform, , and the external magnetic field is negligible. This follows from the magnetostatic Ampère law applied to a rectangular loop running inside and outside the solenoid. Its number of turns is and its cross-sectional area is . Each turn links magnetic flux . Therefore the flux linkage is
Using the definition of self-inductance, , gives
This neglects end leakage and winding thickness and uses vacuum permeability for the air core.
The single secondary turn links the primary magnetic flux , so its mutual inductance with the primary is
Choose positive winding directions so that positive secondary electric current would reinforce the primary magnetic flux. Faraday's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law then give
After the transient proportional to has decayed, put . The steady electric current is
Its wave amplitude is and it lags the induced electromotive force by . Relative to the primary , its phase shift is , modulo . Reversing the chosen secondary winding direction adds to this signed phase shift and leaves all power predictions unchanged.
The lamp's mean Joule heating is
For the response is nearly in phase with the induced electromotive force; for the secondary electric current nearly opposes the primary electric current in the stated winding convention.
The positive lamp power comes from extra work by the primary current source. The secondary electric current creates a changing magnetic flux through the primary, so maintaining the same prescribed primary electric current requires an additional terminal voltage. With the preceding winding convention,
Using phasors, , hence the primary sees the complex impedance
It follows directly that
This is the reflected impedance of the secondary load. The self-inductance and mutual inductance terms exchange stored magnetic energy, while the lamp dissipates it. Multiplying the two coupled equations from Kirchhoff's voltage law by their respective electric currents also gives the instantaneous conservation of energy identity
The derivative averages to zero in periodic steady state. A fixed primary current source supplies the required extra voltage; a fixed voltage source would generally change its primary electric current when the lamp is connected.
Model the uniformly wound air-core solenoid as coaxial circular turns with solenoid turn density . Put its ends at and an internal axial point at . By the superposition principle, integrating the on-axis magnetic field of a circular current loop gives
Since , this evaluates to the on-axis magnetic field of a finite solenoid:
The source's acute endpoint angles satisfy and . Hence
Although the paper calls this a “flux”, is magnetic flux density, measured in teslas. Magnetic flux is an surface integral , measured in webers, and cannot be assigned to a point. For example, two differently sized small disks at the same point have the same limiting but different magnetic fluxes, approximately times their normal areas. The displayed plus sign uses the internal-point angle convention shown in the source. Outside the coil, the integral expression still works, but one must retain signed axial projections rather than adding two acute-angle cosines.
Since , a magnetic field can locally be represented by a magnetic vector potential,
It is not unique: leaves its curl unchanged. In magnetostatics, choose the Coulomb gauge . Ampère's law then gives in vacuum. For a localized steady current distribution with the usual decay condition,
Its curl gives the Biot–Savart field. For a uniform field, one convenient choice is . Stokes's theorem relates to magnetic flux through a spanning surface. In time-dependent electrodynamics, ; changing by requires to preserve the electric field. Gauge freedom simplifies calculation without changing the electromagnetic observables.
Faraday's law for a moving circuit is . The magnetic flux is through a surface bounded by the instantaneous loop, with consistent orientation. For the stationary external field here, the motion supplies the motional electromotive force.
Let be downward penetration of the bottom segment, , and . While , flux grows at rate . Define positive current as the direction whose magnetic force is upward. With negligible self-inductance, and
The resistive magnetic entry of a falling loop gives
The initial acceleration is and the speed approaches if the loop remains partly immersed long enough. Joule heating removes gravitational energy. At the first , both horizontal segments are inside the uniform field: the net flux becomes constant, the net magnetic force vanishes, and this zero-inductance model has thereafter. The subsequent speed increases with acceleration .
For negligible electrical resistance, conservation of total linked flux instead gives in the braking-current convention. Therefore
and the lossless limit of magnetic loop braking yields
Here energy is stored reversibly in , not dissipated. If , the loop reverses before complete entry and executes the ideal oscillatory motion while straddling the boundary. If , it reaches complete entry on its first descent; thereafter the current is constant, the forces on its two horizontal segments cancel, and it falls with acceleration . The exact grazing case needs care at the ideal discontinuous field boundary. An entry-only sinusoid must not be extrapolated through full immersion.
Figure 1.
Resistive relaxation and reversible inductive motion during loop entry
. Original dimensionless entry solutions. Curves assume that the loop is long enough for the indicated stage; a fully immersed loop has different subsequent dynamics. Details.
For a uniformly magnetized ring with a narrow gap, take the local direction of magnetization as positive around the magnetic circuit. Neglect leakage and fringing in the narrow gap, and take the cross section as uniform. Continuity of magnetic flux gives . With no free current, Ampère's law gives . Hence
The rod's field is a demagnetizing field opposite its magnetization; its magnitude is . The gap field points with the magnetization and .
In microscopic SI form, Maxwell's equations couple charge density and current density to electric and magnetic fields:
Gauss's electric law expresses electric flux from charge and reduces to the inverse-square Coulomb field for a point charge. Gauss's magnetic law gives zero net magnetic flux through every closed surface; magnetic field lines do not begin or end on magnetic monopoles in this theory.
Faraday's induction law says changing magnetic flux produces a circulating electric field. For a fixed loop, its circulation is minus the rate of change of enclosed magnetic flux, explaining the sign of induction and Lenz's law. For example, changing a primary coil's electric current changes the flux through a stationary secondary coil and induces a voltage. A moving wire also has the magnetic part of the Lorentz force on its charges; the fixed-loop field equation and the full motional-emf calculation must be distinguished.
The Ampère-Maxwell law relates magnetic circulation to conduction current and displacement current. The latter is essential around a charging capacitor: a surface cutting the lead and another passing through the gap must predict the same circulation. Taking the divergence gives
using Gauss's electric law. Charge conservation therefore fixes the consistency of the time-dependent equations. In matter, the equivalent macroscopic equations use and , free sources and constitutive relations. The Lorentz force density describes exchange of momentum with charges.
In source-free vacuum, take the curl of Faraday's law and use . Both fields satisfy
For a plane wave, , and . The fields are transverse, mutually perpendicular and in phase. Their energy density and energy flux are
This is Poynting's theorem: field energy is transported and can do work on matter. Electromagnetic radiation is a propagating, energy-carrying solution of the coupled electric and magnetic field equations.
For distributed inductance and capacitance , a small segment obeys and . Differentiation gives and . For a forward wave,
A backward voltage wave has current . This sign matters at an impedance discontinuity.
The source figure is the stacked-strip parallel-plate transmission line geometry, despite its use of the word coplanar. Gauss's law gives . Opposite surface currents give magnetic field between the strips by Ampère's law; the magnetic flux per unit length is , hence . Therefore
No numerical is given; the impedance is appropriately left in terms of that ratio. The line is taken to be nonmagnetic and lossless.
Increasing the gap by changes to and to , so while is unchanged. voltage and current continuity at the step give
Consequently the voltage and energy-flux transmission coefficients are
Here amplitudes are peak voltage amplitudes, with mean power . The reciprocal gaps have : equal reflected energy but opposite voltage phase. A voltage transmission coefficient above one does not imply energy gain.
For a finite impedance section of a transmission line, put and . Multiple reflections inside the altered section interfere. Summing their geometric series, relative to the first boundary,
Transmission is unity at and minimal at , with minima . Resonances are separated by ; the long-wavelength limit also transmits fully. Matching the far termination removes end echoes, not the two internal reflections.
Figure 1.
Original calculated power transmission through a finite changed-impedance section between matched lines
. Details.
A current in one circuit links magnetic flux through another. It produces magnetic flux linkage through another. With fixed geometry and a linear reciprocal medium, choose consistent winding orientations and write
The shared coefficient is mutual inductance; reversal of one winding reverses its sign. Faraday's law of induction gives the mutual induced emf for fixed . The minus sign expresses Lenz's law.
The magnetic energy is
Nonnegative energy for every current pair requires , motivating the coupling coefficient . Transformers use strong common flux to exchange energy between circuits; leakage flux reduces coupling. A shared core increases linkage, but saturation, hysteresis and eddy-current losses limit the linear description. A moving geometry also contributes to the mutual emf.
Applying Gauss's law for magnetism to a pillbox and Ampère's law to an interface-crossing rectangle gives
Here points from material 1 to 2 and is free surface current. With no such current, and are continuous. For linear isotropic media, and . The magnetic fields need not have equal magnitudes on either side.
With negligible leakage, Gauss's law for magnetism makes each cross-section of a magnetic flux tube carry the same flux . High permeability guides it through the core; a short gap permits neglect of fringing. Flux conservation across these particular geometric sections is an approximation, not a consequence of zero divergence without controlling side leakage.
Let be the constant-radius arc marked in the figure, and . For each straight taper, the radius changes linearly from to , giving the reluctance of a conical magnetic pole
Summing magnetic reluctances to find the gap field of a tapered electromagnet, and using gives
If is instead defined as the total magnetic-material length, replace the displayed uniform-arc length by . The comparison untapered core has uniform radius and material length , so
The original PDF specifies ; the TeX transcription reverses this inequality. In the printed limit the taper reluctances are small relative to that of the broad arc. The gain is approximately , approaching if the gap reluctance is also negligible. If the gap dominates, both fields instead approach and the gain approaches one. magnetic saturation near the small poles, gap fringing, leakage and winding heating limit practical enhancement.