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Unreasonable Results

Avg difficulty 2.5

An inventor wants to generate 120-V power by moving a 1.00-m-long wire perpendicular to the Earth’s 5.00×10−5T5 . \text{00} \times \text{10}^{- 5} T field. (a) Find the speed with which the wire must move. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumption is responsible?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 22.11 More Applications of Magnetism, exercise 36

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