Magnetic field due to wire and conducting plane

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bsdnoob
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This problem is bugging me since a week so I decided to post this here

Suppose we have a wire with some current 'I' and which at a point 'o' spreads radially in all direction along conducting plane perpendicular to wire so what will be magnetic field at above and below plane?Here's the diagram
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My approach to this problem was to find magnetic field due to individual current carrying elements . For wire I used Ampere's law to find it as B= (mu) . I /4πx (for half infinite wire)but I am confused about it from conducting plane ? Answer is given to be 0 for region below plane , how is this possible? And for above plane is given (mu)I/2πx but how? can someone help?
This problem is given in irodov's general physics book. (3.232)
 
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bsdnoob said:
(for half infinite wire)
Why half?
 
Using Ampere's law sounds like a good approach. Can you explain in detail how you set up Ampere's law to get your answer?