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Magnetic field from two intersecting wires
A wire on the x-axis with a current of .7 A in the positive x direction intersects with a wire on the y-axis with a current of .4 A in the negative y direction. How do the magnetic fields at points (2,2) and (-2,2) compare and what direction is each in?
Since the direction of the magnetic field on the opposite sides of a wire are opposite in direction, shouldn't the field at one of those points be equal and opposite of the field at the other?
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The answer to your question is yes! To clarify, however, this would be an effect in the region x<0 and y>0.