C.
Because it’s falling it has acceleration in the y direction. If you have acceleration, you usually also have velocity, and since kinetic energy is KE= Mv^2 you know you have it. It also has potential energy because it has some height to it, and PE= Mgh.
Speed = (frequency)x(wavelength).
Frequency = 6 Hz
Wavelength = 9mm = 0.009m.
Speed = (6 Hz) x (0.009m) = 0.054 m/s or 54 mm/sec.
(I assume that the 4 directions north-south-east-west are meant with respect to the wire seen from the top.)
We can use the right-hand rule to understand the direction of the magnetic field generated by the wire. The thumb follows the direction of the current in the wire (upward), while the other fingers give the direction of the field in every point around the wire. Seen from the top, the field has an anti-clockwise direction. Therefore, if we take a point at east with respect to the wire, in this point the field has direction south.
