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Question #43262
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A thin non-conducting disk of radius lies in the -plane and rotates with a constant angular velocity about the -axis. The disk has a non-uniform mass surface density and a non-uniform charge surface density , where is the radial distance from the centre, and are positive dimensional constants. If is the total charge and is the total mass of the disk, determine the effective gyromagnetic ratio of the disk, where is the magnetic dipole moment and is the angular momentum about the -axis. Assume all quantities are in standard SI units.
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Concepts Behind This Question
Gyromagnetic Ratio Invariance|Superposition of Magnetic Fields|Continuous Charge Distribution
Why This Question Is Tricky
Common Mistakes
This question tests the limits of the standard gyromagnetic ratio formula .
Students often incorrectly apply this proportionality to any rotating body, failing to recognize that it only holds when the charge-to-mass ratio is spatially uniform.
For non-uniform distributions, the magnetic moment (dependent on the second moment of charge) and angular momentum (dependent on the second moment of mass) scale differently with radius.
The trap explicitly catches students who bypass integration and blindly use the uniform formula or mix uniform formulas for and with non-uniform total and .
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| Subject | Physics |
| Chapter | Magnetism and Matter - Class 12 |
| Concept | Gyromagnetic Ratio Invariance |
| Difficulty | 8 |
| Cognitive Load | 7 |
| Target Solve Time | 160 sec |
| Access | Free |