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The Law of Biot-Savart shows that the magnetic field of an infinitesimal current element decreases as 1/r2. Is there anyway you could put together a complete circuit (any closed path of current-carrying wire) whose field exhibits this same 1/r^2 decrease in magnetic field strength? Explain your reasoning.

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Answer and Explanation:

There is no probability of obtaining such a circuit of closed track current carrying wire whose field of magnitude displays i.e.
B \alpha (1)/(r^2)

The magnetic field is a volume of vectors

And
\phi\ bds = 0. This ensures isolated magnetic poles or magnetic charges would not exit

Therefore for a closed path, we never received magnetic field that followed the
B \alpha (1)/(r^2) it is only for the simple current-carrying wire for both finite or infinite length.

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