IB skill practice

Apply Lenzs law to induction contexts

Paper 1, Paper 2 5 marks Difficulty 3

Motional emf and Lenz direction

A rod in a charged-particle beam tube of length \(0.32\,\text{m}\) moves at \(1.3\,\text{m s}^{-1}\) perpendicular to a \(0.35\,\text{T}\) field. Calculate motional emf. Enter the numerical result and choose the interpretation that matches the field physics.

Worked practice: physics data and result

Read the physical quantities first, then calculate the result and state what it means.