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Tubular Magnet

A loudspeaker consists of a voice coil wrapped around a soft iron core inside a tubular magnet. When an alternating current passes through the voice coil, it experiences a force due to the magnetic field. This force causes the coil, attached to a paper cone, to move back and forth. The movement of the cone vibrates the air to produce sound waves. The force on a 2 cm diameter voice coil with 100 turns carrying a 20 mA current in a 0.1T field is calculated to be 0.013 N.

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Tubular Magnet

A loudspeaker consists of a voice coil wrapped around a soft iron core inside a tubular magnet. When an alternating current passes through the voice coil, it experiences a force due to the magnetic field. This force causes the coil, attached to a paper cone, to move back and forth. The movement of the cone vibrates the air to produce sound waves. The force on a 2 cm diameter voice coil with 100 turns carrying a 20 mA current in a 0.1T field is calculated to be 0.013 N.

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7.

(a) Using the ideas of


forces on currents in
magnetic fields and the
diagram explain the
operation of a moving coil tubular magnet
loudspeaker.
(b) Calculate the force on
the voice coil of a Front view paper cone
loudspeaker that has a
diameter of 2 cm, a 100
turns and carries a current voice coil
of 20 mA if the field
strength of the tubular
magnet is 0.1T. S
N
core

voice coil tubular magnet soft iron core

flexible leads

Side view
Answers and worked solutions
1(a) F = BIL

(b) B=F/IL
-3
B = [2.0 x 10 x 9.81]/ [4 x 0.15] = 0.0327 T (Remember to change grams to kg and
centimetres to metres)

2 Weight of mass required = BIL


Therefore: 1.5 x 10 x 9.81 = 0.5 x I x 0.06 giving I = 0.49 A
-3

3 F = BIL = 0.2 x 2 x 0.5 = 0.2 N

-7
F = oI L/2r = 4x10 x 25 x ½ x 0.2 = 2.5 x10-5 N
2
4

5 For 20 cm length
20 cm
F  0.25 N   0.625 N.
8 cm

6. If each wire carries 3.0 A this is the same as effective current of 9.0 A,
so force F = 3  0.625 = 1.9 N.

7(a) The wire of voice coil is at right angles to the field. When a varying current from an
amplifier current flows in the coil it experiences a force that moves the coil backwards
and forwards along the soft iron core.

F = nBIL = 100 x 0.1 x 20 x 10 x x 2 x 10 = 0.013 N


-3 -2
(b)
(Note: cm to m and mA to A)

External references
Questions 1-4 and 7 are taken from Resourceful Physics Questions 5 and 6 are from
Advancing Physics chapter 15, 250S

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