A circular current-carrying wire loop produces a magnetic field. A spinning disk of uniformly distributed charge produces a similar magnetic field. How would you expect the field due to a spinning disk to compare to the field due to a current-carrying wire loop?

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A circular current-carrying wire loop produces a magnetic
field. A spinning disk of uniformly distributed charge produces
a similar magnetic field. How would you expect the
field due to a spinning disk to compare to the field due to
a current-carrying wire loop?

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