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Biot-savart LawThe Biot-Savart Law describes the magnetic field set up by a steadily flowing line current: the field produced by a current element is -
where - is the magnetic constant
- I is the current, measured in amperes
- is the unit displacement vector from the element to the field point
Hence, integrating, the field produced by current flowing in a loop is -
The Biot-Savart law is fundamental to magnetostatics just as Coulomb's law is to electrostatics. It is equivalent to Ampre's law. The Biot-Savart law is also used to calculate the velocity induced by vortex lines in aerodynamic theory. (The theory is closely parallel to that of magnetostatics; vorticity corresponds to current, and induced velocity to magnetic field strength.) For an vortex line of infinite length, the induced velocity at a point is given by -
where - Γ is the strength of the vortex
- d is the perpendicular distance between the point and the vortex line.
This is a limiting case of the formula for vortex segments of finite length: -
where A and B are the (signed) angles between the line and the two ends of the segment. See also
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