Q.

From Ampere’s circuital law for a long straight wire of circular cross-section carrying a steady current, the variation of magnetic field in the inside and outside region of the wire is         [2022]

1 uniform and remains constant for both the regions  
2 a linearly increasing function of distance up to the boundary of the wire and then linearly decreasing for the outside region  
3 a linearly increasing function of distance r up to the boundary of the wire and then decreasing one with 1/r dependence for the outside region  
4 a linearly decreasing function of distance up to the boundary of the wire and then a linearly increasing one for the outside region  

Ans.

(3)

Using Ampere’s circuital law

Bin=μ0Ir2πa2,  or  Binr

Bout=μ0I2πr,  or  Bout1r