Posted by ikemaze on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 8:42am.
This is pretty close to an infinite wire. It would be nice to compare it to the infinite wire.
YOu have to integrate over the angle subtended by the point and the wire. I am fairly certain your text has an example.
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