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##### Christina K.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

##### Andy C.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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##### Jared E.

University of Winnipeg

### Video Transcript

we're asked to determine the maximum possible potential difference between the two ends of a tether when the tether is 20 times 10 to the third meters long. Earth's magnetic field here is maximum of 1.5 times 10 to the minus five Tesla and the velocity of orbit here V is equal a 7.86 times 10 to the third meters per second. So the maximum possible potential difference. Here we'll go. Capital V is equal to the magnitude of the magnetic field times the length of the tender times the velocity which the spacecraft is moving. So, plugging those values into this expression, we simply find that the maximum potential is 2000 300 and 58. And the units here, of course, are volts. So we can go ahead and box set in is the solution to our question

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##### Christina K.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

##### Andy C.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

LB
##### Jared E.

University of Winnipeg