Question 46

A long straight horizontal wire carries a current from south to north. Magnetic field vertically above the wire is directed

Solution

By the right hand thumb rule, with the thumb pointing north along the current, the field lines curl around the wire. Taking east, north and up as $$\hat{i}$$, $$\hat{j}$$, $$\hat{k}$$, the field direction above the wire is along $$\hat{j} \times \hat{k} = \hat{i}$$, i.e. eastward.

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