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How do you remember the field around a current carrying wire?

Use the right hand screw rule.
The direction the screw is pointing is the direction the current flows, the direction you have to turn the screw is the direction the field is turning.

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Author: Kamal

Main topic: Physics

Topic: Electricity and Magnetism

School / Univ.: KNES

City: Kuwait

Published: 17.12.2009

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