Answer to Question #333998 in Electricity and Magnetism for Lonjezo Masamba

Question

Current of 50A flows to east on stationery wire . A second wire is 1cm below it . How much current must be flowing in the second wire so that doesn't fall due to gravity ? What is the direction of the current ? The mass per unit length of the second wire is 5g/m

Answer 1

$mg=\frac{\mu_0}{2\pi}\frac{I_1I_2l}d,$

$I_2=\frac{2\pi mgd}{\mu_0 I_1 l}=50~A.$