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Take a long strip along , occupying in , with uniform surface current . Above the strip's centre, the contributions odd in cancel, while the Biot-Savart law gives the magnetic field of a uniformly conducting strip
The field reverses below the strip. Its field lines wrap around the longitudinal current: nearly parallel to the faces near the centre, then curving round the edges and approaching circles at large distances. The sketch is an original field integration; the conductor thickness is idealized as negligible.
Figure 1.
Original magnetic field-line integration for a uniformly current-carrying thin strip
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