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In 1996, NASA performed an experiment called the Tethered Satellite experiment. In this experiment, a 3.75 x 104-m length of wire was let out by the space shuttle Atlantis to generate a motional emf. The shuttle had an orbital speed of 8.02 x 103 m/s, and the magnitude of the earth's magnetic field at the location of the wire was 6.44 x 10-5 T. If the wire had moved perpendicular to the earth's magnetic field, what would have been the motional emf generated between the ends of the wire?
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