Biot-Savart law

[bee-oh-suh-vahr, byoh-]

Bi·ot-Sa·vart law

[bee-oh-suh-vahr, byoh-]
noun Physics.
the law that the magnetic induction near a long, straight conductor, as wire, varies inversely as the distance from the conductor and directly as the intensity of the current in the conductor.

Origin:
named after J. B. Biot (see biotite) and Felix Savart (1791–1841), French physician and physicist
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a progressive disturbance propagated in a medium without progress or advance by the points themselves, as in the transmission of sound or light
the direct effect that one kind of particle has on another in inducing the emission or absorption of one particle by another
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