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A nonplanar loop of a conducting wire carrying a current I is placed as shown in the figure. Each of the straight sections of the loop is of length 2a. The magnetic field due to this loop at the point P(a, 0, a) points in the direction

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Correct Answer is: (d)

The conductors BC and EF will together produce a magnetic field at P which **** in the xz-plane and is equally inclined to the x- and z-axes. The conductors AB and CD will together produce a magnetic field at P directed along the z-axis and of the magnitude B0 (say).

The conductors DE and FA will produce a field at P with the same magnitude B0, and directed along the x-axis. Thus, the field at P will have equal components in the x- and z-directions, and no component in the y-direction. It must therefore point in the direction (1/2)(Vector i + Vector k).

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