A thick wire is hanging from a wooden table. An anticlockwise magnetic field is to be produced around the wire by passing current through this wire by using a battery. Which terminal of the battery should be connected to the : 

(a) top end of wire ? 

(b) bottom end of wire ? 

(c) Give reason for your choice. 

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(a) Negative terminal

(b) Positive terminal

(c) Because the current should be passed into wire upwards.

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