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Question: Two wires of same length are bent to form a circle and a circular loop. Then the ratio of their magn...

Two wires of same length are bent to form a circle and a circular loop. Then the ratio of their magnetic fields at the centre will be written as,
A.N2 B.1N C.N D.1N2 \begin{aligned} & A.{{N}^{2}} \\\ & B.\dfrac{1}{N} \\\ & C.N \\\ & D.\dfrac{1}{{{N}^{2}}} \\\ \end{aligned}

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As the wire is bent into the form of a circle and circular loop, the circumference will be the same as the length of the wire. Circumference can be found by taking the product of 2π2\pi and the radius of the loop. First of all find the magnetic field of a circle. Then find the magnetic field of the circular loop. Take the ratio between them and arrive at the answer. This will help you in answering this question.

Complete step by step answer:
Let us assume that the wire is having a length of LL. It is bent in the form of a circle and circular loop. Therefore the circumference of the loop will be the same as the length of the wire. This can be written as,
L=2πrL=2\pi r
Where rr be the radius of the loop. The equation can be rearranged as,
r=L2πr=\dfrac{L}{2\pi }
The magnetic field when the wire is bent into a circle can be written as,
B1=μ0Iπ4L{{B}_{1}}=\dfrac{{{\mu }_{0}}I\pi }{4L}
Here IIbe the current through the circle.
When the wire is bent to form a circular loop, we can write that,
N×2πr1=2πrN\times 2\pi {{r}_{1}}=2\pi r
Therefore the radius will become,
r1=rN{{r}_{1}}=\dfrac{r}{N}
Where NN be the number of turns,
Therefore the magnetic field when the wire is bent in the form of circular loop is given as,
B2=Nμ0I2r1=N2μ0I2r=N2μ0πI4L{{B}_{2}}=\dfrac{N{{\mu }_{0}}I}{2{{r}_{1}}}=\dfrac{{{N}^{2}}{{\mu }_{0}}I}{2r}=\dfrac{{{N}^{2}}{{\mu }_{0}}\pi I}{4L}
Taking the ratio between this will give,
B1B2=μ0Iπ4LN2μ0Iπ4L=1N2\dfrac{{{B}_{1}}}{{{B}_{2}}}=\dfrac{\dfrac{{{\mu }_{0}}I\pi }{4L}}{\dfrac{{{N}^{2}}{{\mu }_{0}}I\pi }{4L}}=\dfrac{1}{{{N}^{2}}}

Therefore the answer has been obtained as option D.

Note:
In the case of a circle, which is a two dimensional shape, the number of turns will be only one. Therefore in the equation for the circle, the number of turns will be unity. While the circular loop may have more than one turns. Therefore in this case only the number of turn’s term is valid.