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 February 17th, 2019, 06:18 AM #1 Newbie   Joined: Feb 2019 From: United states Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 How does the magnetic field varies here? >A uniform beam of positively charged particles is moving with a constant velocity parallel to another beam of negatively charged particles moving with the same velocity but in opposite direction separated by a distance d. Then, how should be the variation of magnetic field B along a perpendicular line drawn between the two beams?(For better view, imagine positive beam to be x-axis and negative beam to be y=1 line.) I know that there will be electric field and hence the magnetic field. But I don't know how to proceed for the relation Last edited by Jayant98; February 17th, 2019 at 06:21 AM.
February 17th, 2019, 07:36 AM   #2
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 Originally Posted by Jayant98 >A uniform beam of positively charged particles is moving with a constant velocity parallel to another beam of negatively charged particles moving with the same velocity but in opposite direction separated by a distance d. Then, how should be the variation of magnetic field B along a perpendicular line drawn between the two beams?(For better view, imagine positive beam to be x-axis and negative beam to be y=1 line.) I know that there will be electric field and hence the magnetic field. But I don't know how to proceed for the relation
This is an application of Ampere's Law. The magnetic field varies radially from each current and you can simply add them.

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 February 17th, 2019, 07:46 AM #3 Newbie   Joined: Feb 2019 From: United states Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 But it is charge beam and not a current carrying wire or something. Last edited by Jayant98; February 17th, 2019 at 07:53 AM.
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 Originally Posted by topsquark This is an application of Ampere's Law. The magnetic field varies radially from each current and you can simply add them. -Dan
But it's not a current carrying wire. Are both the charge beams same as the current carrying wire?

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 Originally Posted by Jayant98 But it is charge beam and not a current carrying wire or something.
Current is defined as:

$I = \frac{dq}{dt}$

When we think about current, typically we think about negatively charge particles (electrons) crossing a perpendicular plane in the wire every time interval dt. If we had positively charged particles (like we do in this problem) moving the same effect would be happening, just the magnetic field direction would be flipped. Use the right hand rule and Amperes law:

$$\oint B\cdot\,ds = µ_oI_o$$

To investigate this further.

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 Originally Posted by Jayant98 But it's not a current carrying wire. Are both the charge beams same as the current carrying wire?
A current is defined as a moving set of charges. No one says they have to be constricted to a wire. For example, we can also have charges moving along a surface.

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