Two parallel long straight wires are suspended by strings of length L = 1.2 m. Each wire

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Two parallel long straight wires are suspended by strings of length L = 1.2 m. Each wire has mass per unit length 0.050 kg/m. When the wires each carry 50.0 A of current, the wires swing apart.
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(a) How far apart are the wires in equilibrium? (Assume that this distance is small compared with L.)
(b) Are the wires carrying current in the same or opposite directions?

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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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