What do you expect for direction of B(P)? How about direction of dB(P) generated JUST by the segment of current dl in red?
I have two very long, parallel wires each carrying a current I1 and I2, respectively. In which direction is the force on the wire with the current I2?
Into or out of the page
What is the magnitude of dl׈RR2?
What is dBz (the contribution to the vertical component of B from this dl segment?)
What is ∮B⋅dl around this purple (dashed) Amperian loop?
Stoke's Theorem says that for a surface S bounded by a perimeter L, any vector field B obeys:
∫S(∇×B)⋅dA=∮LB⋅dl
Does Stoke's Theorem apply for any surface S bounded by a perimeter L, even this balloon-shaped surface S?
Rank order ∫J⋅dA (over blue surfaces) where J is uniform, going left to right:
Much like Gauss's Law, Ampere's Law is always true (for magnetostatics), but only useful when there's sufficient symmetry to "pull B out" of the integral.
So we need to build an argument for what B looks like and what it can depend on.
For the case of an infinitely long wire, can B point radially (i.e., in the ˆs direction)?
Continuing to build an argument for what B looks like and what it can depend on.
For the case of an infinitely long wire, can B depend on z or ϕ?
Finalizing the argument for what B looks like and what it can depend on.
For the case of an infinitely long wire, can B have a ˆz component?
For the infinite wire, we argued that B(r)=B(s)ˆϕ. For the case of an infinitely long thick wire of radius a, is this functional form still correct? Inside and outside the wire?