A Simple Magnetic Circuit Consider a simple structure consisting of a current carrying coil of N turns and a magnetic core of mean

length l c and a cross sectional area Ac as shown in the diagram below. The permeability of the core material is mc . Assume that the size of the device and the operation frequency are such that the displacement current in Maxwell s equations are negligible, and that the permeability of the core material is very high so that all magnetic flux will be confined within the core. By Ampere s law, Hl=Ja dd CS we can write H l Ni cc= where Hc is the magnetic field strength in the core, and Ni the magnetomotive force. The magnetic flux through the cross section of the core can expressed as fc = Bc AcMagnetic Circuit Analysis 2 A simple magnetic circuit where fc is the flux in the core and Bc the flux density in the core. The constitutive equation of the core material is

Bc = mHc Therefore, we obtain () f m c ccc c Ni lA F R == If we take the magnetic flux fc as the current , the magnetomotive force F=Ni as the emf of a voltage source , and Rc=l c /(mcAc) (known as the magnetic reluctance) as the resistance in the magnetic circuit, we have an analog of Ohm s law in electrical circuit Theory

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A magnetic circuit is made up of one or more closed loop paths containing a magnetic flux. The flux is usually generated by permanent magnets orelectromagnets and confined to the path by magnetic cores consisting of ferromagnetic materials like iron, although there may be air gaps or other materials in the path. Magnetic circuits are employed to efficiently channel magnetic fields in many devices such as electric motors, generators, transformers, relays, liftingelectromagnets, SQUIDs, galvanometers, and magnetic recording heads. The concept of a "magnetic circuit" exploits a one-to-one correspondence between the equations of the magnetic field in an unsaturated ferromagnetic material to that of an electrical circuit. Using this concept the magnetic fields of complex devices such as transformers can be quickly solved using the methods and techniques developed for electrical circuits. Some examples of magnetic circuits are: horseshoe magnet with iron keeper (low-reluctance circuit) horseshoe magnet with no keeper (high-reluctance circuit) electric motor (variable-reluctance circuit)