Two concentric circular coils with radii 1 cm and 1000 cm, and number of turns 10 and 200 respectively are placed coaxially with centers coinciding. The mutual inductance of this arrangement will be ____ ×10−8 H. (Take, π2=10)
Answer: 4
Solution
The inner coil (r1=1 cm, N1=10) is very small compared with the outer coil (r2=1000 cm, N2=200), so the field of the outer coil is uniform over the inner area and equals B=2r2μ0N2I. The flux linked with the inner coil is N1Bπr12, so the mutual inductance is M=2r2μ0N1N2πr12. Substituting, M=2×104π×10−7×10×200×π×(0.01)2, and with π2=10 this gives M=4×10−8 H. The required value is 4.