JOURNAL ARTICLE

Experimental evidence for the Biot–Savart law.

  • Published In: Physics Teacher, 2023, v. 61, n. 7. P. 548 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Phillips, Jeffrey A.; Sanny, Jeff 3 of 3

Abstract

In a recent paper,[1] Alon Drory discusses the difficulty of introducing students to the Biot-Savart law and his way of justifying it via analogy. For some students, it will be sufficient, but as Dr. Drory mentions, empirical evidence is the gold standard for justifying a law. By varying the length of that base segment, one can see that in the infinitely small segment limit, the field strength approaches a 1/ I r i SP 2 sp behavior, where I r i is the distance from the segment. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Physics Teacher. 2023/10, Vol. 61, Issue 7, p548
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0031-921X
  • DOI:10.1119/5.0167265
  • Accession Number:172324976
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