MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Physics

E401: MAGNETIC FIELD AND

MAGNETIC FORCE

REYES, Mary Grace G.

2013108107 BSCpE-2 Group 5
PHY13L-B5

SCORE:
Analysis
Conclusion
Presentation
TOTAL

Engr. Ericson D. Dimaunahan

Instructor
July 31, 2015
ANALYSIS

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The experiment has two parts; the first part of the experiment is about
magnetic fields of bar magnets, four set ups where prepared. The first and
second set-ups make use of two bar magnets, it is set such that the like
poles of a bar magnet was facing each other and for another set-up, unlike
poles were facing each other. For the third and fourth set-ups two U magnets
were used with their unlike poles facing each other, an iron ring was added
for the fourth set-up. A picture of how the magnetic flux behaved through
each set up was shown in figure 1& 2. One of the difficulty that we
encountered in performing this experiment was the arrangement of iron
filings in the bond paper wasnt that clear and it is hard to determine
whether the direction of its magnetic flux was away or towards the magnet.
In the second part of the experiment we had analysed about magnetic

force
on

Figure 1. Two Umagnets

current-

Figure 2. Two bar

magnets

carrying
conductor.

We

observed

the

effect of magnetic field, current, length of

current loop, and orientation of coil to the
magnetic

force.

Materials

such

as

power

supply,

current

balance,

accessories, digital balance, and iron stand were used to perform the
experiment about magnetic force on a Current-Carrying conductor. The setup was shown in figure 3. Using a digital balance we measured the increase

in mass of the magnet assembly because as what is said in the manual it is

actually the magnetic force on the current loop. The magnetic force that the
digital balance will show us is in grams, to convert that in Newton a formula
was used and it was shown in the sample computation. To discern more
about the relationship of the magnetic force and magnetic field five trials
were made, in each trial the number of magnets placed were increased, and
as the increase happened there is also an increase in magnetic force. By
incrementing the current by 0.5A the magnetic force also increments per
trial. To observe the relationship of magnetic force and length of current loop,
different current loop were used every trial, for each current loop there is
different length and it is observed that as the length increases, the magnetic
force also increases. Lastly, we had determined the relationship of the
orientation of coil to the magnetic force; we had tried different angles
clockwise and counter clockwise. If the angle is negative or measured
clockwise, the magnetic force will also be negative but the magnitude would
be the same. As we increment the angle the magnitude of the magnetic
force in newton also increments. A graph was shown in figure 4 in order to
easily identify the relationships between the quantities.

Figure 3. Set-up for Part

B
Figure 4. Graph of the magnetic
force

Sample

Computation

Part 2a. Computing Magnetic force in Newton from grams

Magnetic Force = 0.6 g

0.6g x

1 kg
) x (9.8 m/s2) = 5.88x10-3 N
1000 g

Magnetic Force= 5.88x10-3

CONCLUSION
After the experiment was done we have been familiarized with the
behaviour of magnetic fields around the poles of permanent magnets,
figured out the magnetic forces magnitude on a current-carrying wire,
discerned about the characteristics of the relationships between magnetic
field and other quantities like magnetic force, length, current, and orientation
of current carrying wire.
It was shown in the arrangement of iron filings in the experiment that
like poles of bar magnets will repel while unlike poles of a bar magnet will
attract, this agrees to the properties of magnets that was discussed in our
lecture class. Iron ring will affect the distribution of magnetic flux; some of it
will be attracted to the iron filing instead of being attracted to just the other
U-magnet alone. The magnetic force on current- carrying conductor can be
determined by getting the summation of magnetic force on each of the
individual charges that make this current. From our experiment we had
discovered that the number of magnets, current, length of current loop, and
orientation of coil are directly proportional to the magnetic force because as

we increment the value of those, the magnetic force also increments. The
graph of values obtained from the experiment was shown above also proves
that they were directly proportional. Our results were parallel to the formula
derived from the theory about the magnetic force of a wire exposed to a
magnetic field which is F= ILBsin.