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Magnetic Field Produced By Current, Part 2
- Amperes Law: Consider a wire carrying a current. The current produces a magnetic field. Now consider a closed path. Amperes law states that the integral of B.dl around the closed path is equal to mu_0*I, where I is the current enclosed within the closed path.
- Amperes law is useful in calculating the magnetic field produced by highly symmetric current distributions.
- In the lecture, examples are given that show how to apply Amperes law to calculate the magnetic field produced by a current carrying long, straight, cylindrical wire, a toroid, and a solenoid.
Magnetic Field Produced By Current, Part 2
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- Intro
- Ampere's Law
- Long Cylindrical Wire
- Wire of Radius 'r'
- Magnetic Field is Tangent to Circle and Has Same Magnitude
- B at r>R
- B at r<R
- B at r=R
- Toroid
- Solenoid
- Coil With Many Turns
- Each Loop Carrying Current
- Taking Loop Within the Solenoid and Close the Loop
- Applying Ampere's Law
- Example 1: Infinitely Long Wire
- Example 2: Straight Wire
- Example 3: Two Parallel Conductors
- Example 4: Solenoid




























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