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Very large magnetic fields can be produced using a procedure called flux compression. A metallic cylindrical tube of radius R is placed coaxially in a long solonoid of somewhat larger radius. The space between the tube and the solonoid is filled with a highly explosive material. When the explosive is set off, it collapses the tube to a cylinder of radius r<R. If the collapse happens very rapidly, induced current in the tube maintains the magnetic flux nearly constant inside the tube. If the initial magnetic field in the solonoid is T and R/r=12.0, what maximum value of magnetic field can be achieved?