Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-probability-statistics-and-options-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/j/1/solution

For a consistently oriented surface and boundary, Ampère's law is
Stokes theorem gives the left side as , so the given curl equation proves the law.
On a circle of radius around the axis, the assumed azimuthal field is tangent and constant in magnitude. Thus the circulation is . For , the enclosed electric current is ; for , it is . Therefore
The field is continuous at and vanishes regularly at the axis. Its direction follows the right-hand rule for positive electric current along . The radial component of the curl equation also gives , so the expression is valid at every height; no unmentioned axial dependence remains.

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