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hello Does anyone out there know if there is a way to create a magnetic field where the field lines travel in a circle consentric with the shape of the coil? Lets say that there is a washer-like ring, I am wondering if there is a way to get the magnetic field lines to flow in a circular path above the surface of the washer-like ring. At first when I thought about this I thought of a toroidal electromagnet, but after some research found that in that situation there is no magnetic field outside of the coil. Possibly many many small solenoids lined end to end in a circle with a gap between the cores, allowing the field to escape...
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If the washer-like ring is lying on a horizontal surface, then a vertical wire carrying current through the centre of the ring will generate a magnetic field around the ring, above and below it. Of course there is no such thing as an isolated wire, so you need to choose whether to bring the current back down again in one place a long way away, or in a cylindrical shell outside the washer. Think of the way a toriodal transformer is wound.
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It's for a science fair project. I'm working on redesigning an electric thruster called a Pulsed Inductive Thruster to allow for more efficient opperation. For the thruster to work there must be a propper orientation between magnetic and electric field lines.
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You will only get circular field lines inside a toroidal solenoid. However, if the solenoid is wound quite sparsely, consisting of a few discrete coils as you appear to suggest, then you will get a reasonably uniform field inside, and little leakage field outside. The gaps will allow you to see inside, and give access for supports and wires and to poke the demonstration.
Perhaps you'd post a sketch of the sort of configuration you're after, then we can see whether you'd need to break the laws of physics or not (hint, somewhat easier if laws don't need to be broken)
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You forgot to attach the sketch. As I understood it it's a coilgun that uses gas as a projectile instead of a metal object. But I don't get why you need the field lines to go parallel to the surface of the ring.
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oops here it is...
the way the thruster works is that there is a flat coil that accelerates a plasma away from the surface. The orientaion between the magnetic field and electric field has to be around perpendicular for a force to be applied to the ions according to lorentz law. The orientation is correct if a flat spiral coil is used (like an induction launcher) but in the process of my redesigning the electic field direction needs to change, and thus the magnetic field. This is still just an idea and i'm trying to figure out if it's even possible. If it's not then i'll just have to improve on my other design.
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A toroidal coil would give you a magnetic field close to that. You could also get somewhat less close to that by arranging several (8+) pancake coils with holes in the center in a circle.
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