Both methods are Biot-Savart.
The first one just has cuter math, and I wanted to "plug and chug," I guess. Yes, my question is more mathematically based.
I just worked it out in cartesian coordinates, and the x and y components went away because I was integrating sines and cosines from 0 to...
I hope you don't mind if I'm a little liberal in your cute format.
I'm looking for why method 1 does not equal method 2.
1. Homework Statement : Method 1--the "cute math" method.
Alright, so...
I have a circular loop of radius A, let's place it in the xy plane, with a steady current I...