Biot-Savart’s Law
Biot-Savart’s Law: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Current Element, Biot-Savart Law, Magnetic Field Due to a Current, Magnetic Field of a Moving Charge, Permeability of Free Space, Permeability of a Medium, and Relative Permeability of a Medium.
Important Questions on Biot-Savart’s Law
Infinite number of straight wires each carrying current I are equally placed as shown in the figure. Adjacent wires have current in opposite direction. Net magnetic field at point P is.

Three infinitely long thin wires each carrying current in the same direction, are in the x-y plane a gravity-free space. The central wire is along the y-axis while the other two are along Find the locus of the points for which the magnetic field B is zero.

A ring of the radius is placed in the plane and it carries a current . The conducting wires which are used to supply the current to the ring can be assumed to be very long and are placed as shown in the figure. The magnitude of the magnetic field at the centre of the ring is

Find the magnetic induction at point , if the current carrying wire is in the shape shown in the figure.

Find the magnetic induction at the origin in the figure shown.

A system of long four parallel conductors whose sections with the plane of the drawing lie at the vertices of a square there flow four equal currents. The directions of these currents are as follows : those marked point away from the reader, while those marked with a dot point towards the reader. How is the vector of magnetic induction directed at the centre of the square ?

A long straight wire carries a current of directed along the negative axis as shown in the figure. A uniform magnetic field of magnitude is directed parallel to the axis. What is the resultant magnetic field at the following point ?

A long straight wire carries a current . A proton travels with a speed , parallel to the wire, at a distance from it in a direction opposite to the current as shown in the figure. What is the force experienced by the proton and what is its direction?

Magnetic field at a distance from an infinitely long straight conductor carrying a steady current varies as

A current carrying circular arc wire of the length is turned along a circle, as shown in the figure. The magnetic field at the centre .

The current in flowing along the path of a cube (shown in the left figure) produces a magnetic field at the centre of cube of magnitude . Dashed line depicts the non-conducting part of the cube.
Consider a cubical shape shown to the right which is identical in size and shape to the left. If the same current now flows in along the path , then the magnitude of magnetic field at the centre will be

Which of the following equations correctly represents the relationship between permeability and permittivity of free space?

Which law is similar to the Biot-Savart's law of magnetism?

Study the given current carrying configuration in the adjoining diagram and calculate the magnetic induction due to the same at a point .

Calculate the magnitude of magnetic induction in air at a point from one end of a long current carrying wire and lying on its axis. A current of is flowing through the wire.

As indicated in the following figure a circular conducting wire is connected in such a way that current flows through two arcs of lengths and respectively. Calculate the magnitude of magnetic induction at the centre of the coil.

Find the intensity of magnetic field at a distance from a straight current carrying wire, if the intensity of magnetic field at a point situated at a distance from the same wire is .

A long wire bent as shown in the figure carries current . It is given that the radius of the semicircular portion is . What is the magnetic induction (in ) at the centre ?

What is the magnetic field at centre of an equilateral triangle of side with current flowing as shown below? (Resistance of part ABC is , and resistance of part ADC is )

What is the magnetic field at point ?
