Equation 22-7 tells us that a circulating electric field is produced by a magnetic field that changes over time. In Section 19-7 we learned that a circulating magnetic field is produced by electric charges in motion, that is, by a current. The mathematical expression of this statement is Ampère’s law:
Figure 22-8a shows an application of Ampère’s law that we introduced in Section 19-7: the magnetic field due to a long, straight, current-carrying wire. The current through each loop in the figure is equal to the current in the wire, so for each loop \(i_{\mathrm{through}} = i\). As a result, there is a magnetic field that circulates around each loop, and the circulation \(\sum{B_{||}\Delta{\ell}} = \mu_0i_{\mathrm{through}}\) of the magnetic field is equal to \(\mu_0i\).