BiotSavart 3.2 User's Guide

Config menu

The Config menu is used to add conductors or probes to the configuration. It is also used to read conductors from other BiotSavart documents, and to set options.

The Make conductor submenu creates conductors, or sources of magnetic field:

• Loop Circular filamentary loop, with fields calculated exactly using Elliptic Integrals (see, e.g., Wilson). Also handles sets of coaxial loops.
• Solenoid Cylindrical solenoid. Fields are calculated by breaking the solenoid up into loops and summing the loop fields.
• Revolved Cylindrically symmetric current sheet obtained by revolving a specified polygon about the symmetry axis. Fields are calculated as a sum over loops.
• Wire String of filamentary segments, specified by a sequence of motion commands for a shuttle. These commands include straight segments and radiused turns. Fields are calculated by summing the exact fields from the segments.
• Racetrack Planar racetrack conductor. Fields are calculated by decomposing the Racetrack into a bundle of wires.

The Make probe submenu creates objects which measure the magnetic field:

• Linear One-dimensional field probe, which calculates the magnetic field along a specified trajectory and plots the (vector) field profile.
• Planar Two-dimensional field probe, which calculates the magnetic field on a specified flat surface and displays a contour plot of the field magnitude.

© 2002 Ripplon Software Inc.