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Question
A flat coil ABCD is freely suspended between the pole pieces of a U-shaped permanent magnet with the plane of coil parallel to the magnetic field.
When will the couple acting on the coil be
- maximum
- minimum?
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Solution
- When plane of a coil is parallel to the magnetic field.
- When plane of coil is normal to the magnetic field.
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