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Water is the only substance found naturally in all three states on Earth's surface.
An arrangement of three parallel straight wires placed perpendicular to plane of paper carrying same current I along the same direction is shown in the figure. Magnitude of force per unit length on the middle wire B is given by:

To solve this problem, we need to calculate the force per unit length on the middle wire B due to the other two wires A and C.The force between two parallel current-carrying wires is given by:where and are the currents, and is the distance between the wires.In this case, all wires carry the same current The force per unit length on wire B due to wire A is:The force per unit length on wire B due to wire C is:Since the wires form a right triangle, the forces and are perpendicular.The net force per unit length on wire B is the vector sum of and Using the Pythagorean theorem:Substitute the values:Therefore, the magnitude of the force per unit length on the middle wire B is This corresponds to Option 3.
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