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In magnetostatics, Ampère's circuital law in vacuum is
It is especially useful when symmetry makes the tangential field constant on an Amperian loop. It gives for an infinite straight wire, inside a long solenoid, and in an ideal toroid. The long-solenoid and toroidal expressions neglect fringing.
For time-dependent fields, displacement current is essential:
In matter, the corresponding macroscopic form is . The enclosed electric current alone is sufficient only in the magnetostatic limit.

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