The Biot-Savart Law finds small contributions of The Magnetic Field from small contributions of length from non-linear Current carrying wires.

After you have all the small contributions, you integrate both sides to find the total magnetic field.

Note

is a Unit Vector that gives the direction of .

For example, for a current carrying coil:

In this case and are always perpendicular.

Lets plug in terms:

We can also use this to find the Magnetic Field on a long, straight, current-carrying wire, and see if it is the same as when we use Ampere’s Law.

We establish a point in which we calculate the magnetic field on. Also, we use .