Hi,
I am currently working through a past paper to prepare me for my own assignments and exams coming up, and I have been doing great up until this question. I am looking for someone to shed some light on it for me please :-) Any experts out there?!
Please view link 1 first for the figure relevant to the question.
LINK 1:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/DickieHyde/photo43.jpgQUESTION: Consider a general point on the line joining the two wires and a distance away from the mid-point P.
By summing the magnetic field due to currents of magnitude i flowing in both the wires in the senses you found in (c), show that, on the line joibing the two wires, the magnetic fields strength is given by:
Please view Link 2 for the formula.
LINK 2:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/DickieHyde/photo45.jpgHint: you may find the identity (a+b)(a-b_ = a^2 - b^2 useful.