BELIEVE ME NOT! - - A SKEPTIC's GUIDE
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Any current element
contributes
to the magnetic field
at a given point in space:
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(17.8) |
where
is the unit vector in the direction of ,
the vector distance from the current element to the point in space
where the magnetic field is being evaluated.
Eq. (8) is known as the LAW OF BIOT AND SAVART.
It is still not perfectly transparent, I'm sure you will agree,
but it beats Eq. (4)!
Jess H. Brewer -
Last modified: Mon Nov 16 17:07:46 PST 2015