A teacher wants to build another student a giant solenoid of one layer of tightly-wrapped 12-gauge copper wire (diameter is 0.2032 mm). It is to be 3.5 meters tall and square in shape with 0.75-m long sides. He’d like to achieve a 150-mT field inside it. How much current will it need to draw?

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A teacher wants to build another student a giant solenoid of one layer of tightly-wrapped 12-gauge copper wire (diameter is 0.2032 mm). It is to be 3.5 meters tall and square in shape with 0.75-m long sides. He’d like to achieve a 150-mT field inside it. How much current will it need to draw?

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