Strictly speaking, Eq. (10.69) is for a point charge,
and so should be applied separately to each charge element
.
However, since
has the same magnitude and direction for each,
v comes outside the integral and all the non-y components of the
individual cross products cancel out the same way the horizontal
components of
do.
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