A long straight wire carries a current of 35 A. What is the magnitude of the field B at a point 20 cm from the wire?
Given:
Current through the wire, I = 35 A
Distance of point P from the wire, d = 20 cm
Using Biot Savart law we can find magnetic field at a distance d from a current carrying conductor.
It is given by:
…(1)
Where,
B = Magnetic field strength
I = current through the coil
�0 is the permeability of free space.
�0 = 4 × π × 10-7 TmA-1
d = distance of point P
By plugging the values in the equation (1), we get
⇒
⇒ |B| = 3.5 × 10-5T
In this case the magnetic field at 20 cm away from a current carrying conductor is found to be 3.5 × 10-5T.