38) A airplane having a metal surface and a wingspan of 25.0 m flies horizontally at 200. m/s
where the earth’s magnetic field is vertical with magnitude 45.0 μT.
(a) What emf is induced across the wings?
(b) What wingspan would the plane need to produce 1.00-V emf across its wings?
(c) The plane now reverses direction. Does the polarity of the wingtip emf change? That is, if the
left wing was positive before, does it now become negative?
39) An eagle, with a wingspread of 2.0 m, flies toward the north at 8.0 m/s in a region where the
vertical component of the earth’s magnetic field is 0.20 × 10-4 T. What emf would be developed
between the eagle’s wing tips? (It has been speculated that this phenomenon could play a role in
the navigation of birds, but the effect is too small, in all likelihood.)
40) A long vertical wire carries a steady 70 A current. As shown in the figure, a pair of
horizontal rails are 0.20 m apart. A 20-Ω resistor connects points a and b, at the end of the rails.
A bar is in contact with the rails, and is moved by an external force with a constant horizontal
velocity of 0.90 m/s to the right, as shown. The bar and the rails have negligible resistance. At
the instant that the bar is 0.20 m from the wire, what are the induced current in the resistor and its
direction through the resistor? (μ0 = 4π × 10-7 T ∙ m/A)
A) 0.63 μA, from a to b
B) 0.63 μA, from b to a
C) 0.32 μA, from a to b
D) 0.32 μA, from b to a
E) 1.9 μA, from b to a