Deriving Biot Savart's law from Ampere's law

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The discussion centers on deriving Biot-Savart's law from Ampere's law, with participants expressing confusion about the connection between the two. One user highlights that Ampere's law can refer to different formulations, and clarifies that Biot-Savart's law can be expressed in differential or integral forms. They suggest starting with the curl of Ampere's law and solving the resulting equation using Fourier Transform methods to derive Biot-Savart's law. Another participant mentions a proof they found but criticizes its accuracy, indicating that the referenced paper does not successfully derive Biot-Savart's law from Ampere's law. The conversation emphasizes the need for clarity in understanding the mathematical relationships between these laws.
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Can anyone help me with this? My textbook (Young and Freedman's University Physics) says that Ampere's law can be extrapolated to give Biot Savart's law but I'm not sure how to go about it.
 
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Here is a proof I found because i am too lazy to deal with maths.
Anyway, it is pritty clear they are connected since both deal with the relation beteen I and B

http://www.abbasem.net/articles/axiomatic.pdf

Thumbs up and good luck
 
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I have not looked at that paper in detail, but it does not claim to derive B-S from Ampere.
What I have read on that website is all wrong. I showed the mistake to the author of the website, but he did not send me the $5,000.

You have to be more specific, "Ampere's law" can refer to two different laws,
"Biot=Savart's law" can be in differential or integral form.
 
I think you can derive the Biot-Savart Law in the form

\textbf{B}(\textbf{x})=\frac{\mu_0}{4\pi}\int\frac{\textbf{J}(\textbf{x}')\times (\textbf{x}-\textbf{x}')}{|\textbf{x}-\textbf{x}'|^3}d^3x'

From Ampere's law (for magnetostatics) in the form \mathbf{\nabla}\times\textbf{B}=\mu_0\textbf{J} and \mathbf{\nabla}\cdot\textbf{B}=0, along with the boundary condition that the field goes to zero at infinity (falls of sufficiently quickly far from the source currents). If that's what you are interested in, I'd start by taking the curl of both sides of Ampere's Law, and then solve the resulting vector form of Poisson's equation for each Cartesian component of \textbf{B} via Fourier Transform methods.
 
Okay I know Ampere's law and Biot Savart's law in their most basic forms so I don't understand the explanation in the previous post. I'm a college freshman so I only know the integral form of Ampere's law also. So how can I derive Biot Savart's law from Ampere's law.
 
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