Solution

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For a steady filamentary electric current , the Biot-Savart law is
Here is the observation position, the source position, points in the direction of positive electric current, and is the vacuum permeability. A circular loop has centre magnetic field : the cross product has magnitude and a constant axial direction, and .
Introduce the constant signed angular velocity about the positive axis. A ring's electric charge crosses any radial cut once per rotation, so its electric current is . Adding loop contributions yields the magnetic field of a rotating charged annulus:
The direction follows the right-hand rule for positive electric charge; reversing either or reverses the magnetic field. The source supplies no rotation rate, so the answer necessarily retains .

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