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Magnetic field around a current-carrying wire

A right-hand-rule diagram showing the magnetic field around a current-carrying wire.

A hand curling around a current-carrying wire to show the direction of the magnetic field.
Original
Right-hand rule and vector cross product by Izaak Neutelings
License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Changes
  • Changed the hand color.
  • Changed the font and placement of the I and B labels.

Adapted by PhysicsGraph.

Attribution
Adapted from “Right-hand rule and vector cross product” by Izaak Neutelings, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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