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### You have a 12 -V battery, some wire, a switch, an…

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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Problem 55

# Designing a sparker Your friend decides to use a device that converts some mechanical energy into the production of a spark to ignite lighter fluid. Use the information and the questions below to decide whether his sparker will work. The sparker has a coil connected across a very short gap $(0.1 \mathrm{mm})$ between the ends of the wire in the coil. (a) Estimate the potential difference needed across this gap to cause dielectric breakdown (a spark) to ignite the fumes from thewick. Dielectric breakdown occurs when the magnitude of the E field is 3 * 106 V/m or greater. (b) Estimate, based on mechanical properties, the shortest time interval that you think a person can push a small magnet from several centimeters away to the surface of a coil. (c) As the magnet is pushedtoward the coil, the field in the coil increases and causes an induced emf. If the magnetic flux inside one loop increases by 10-6 T # m2 as the magnet moves forward, how many coil turns are needed to produce the emf to cause a spark? Is this a reasonable lighter system?

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