How Is the Biot-Savart Law Derived?

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Aug 17, 2009

how is the Biot Savart law derived?? From where does it come?

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Dadface

Aug 17, 2009

Experiment shows that B depends on current,conductor geometry etc and I assume that Biot and Savart started with experimental results from geometries such as straight wires and solenoids and worked backwards to find a general equation that covers all integratable geometries.

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How Is the Biot-Savart Law Derived?

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