A rectangular conducting loop of length cm and width cm is in the -plane, as shown in the figure. It is being moved away from a thin and long conducting wire along the direction with a constant speed . The wire is carrying a steady current A in the positive -direction. A current of flows through the loop when it is at a distance cm from the wire. If the resistance of the loop is , then the value of is __________ ms.
[Given: The permeability of free space ]

The motion can be split into a component perpendicular to the wire (, along ) and a component parallel to it (). Only the perpendicular component changes the flux through the loop and drives an EMF.
The magnetic field due to the long wire at distance is . With the near side of the loop at distance and the far side at (where cm is the length perpendicular to the wire and cm is along the wire), the induced EMF as the loop moves with speed is
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The induced current is . Using , A, m, m, m, , A:
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which simplifies to m s.
Since the velocity direction is , we have , hence m s.
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