Approximation of the magnetic field of a circular loop of wire.
| dc.advisor | Jorge Ballist | |
| dc.college | las | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Grantham, Kevin Kale. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-18T21:06:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-04-18T21:06:07Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2006 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-04-18 | |
| dc.department | physical sciences | en_US |
| dc.description | ii, 65 leaves | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | For a current-carrying, circular loop of wire, there is no known method of solving the Biot-Savart law for the exact magnetic field at all points in space. By using a many-sided, regular, polygonal loop to approximate a circular loop, it is possible to solve the Biot-Savart law for the polygon and find an approximate value of the magnetic field for a circular loop. This method is checked for validity against the exact solution for the axial field of a circular loop and two known approximate solutions. The results from the polygonal approximation are found to be within acceptable elTor limits. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/929 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Magnetic fields. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Polygons. | en_US |
| dc.title | Approximation of the magnetic field of a circular loop of wire. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |