What is the magnetic field due to the current carrying conductor?
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Magnetic field due to the current-carrying conductor:
The magnetic field represents the region around a magnet where magnetism acts.
Magnetism is caused by a moving charge or a magnetic material.
Moving charges produce magnetic fields proportional to the current, just as stationary charges produce an electric field proportional to the magnitude of charge.
A current-carrying conductor, in other words, generates a magnetic field around it.
The magnetic field is produced by subatomic particles in the conductor, such as electrons moving in atomic orbitals. The magnetic field lines that circle a straight conductor (straight wire) carrying current are concentric circles with their centers on the wire.