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Doubling the distance from a long straight current-carrying wire changes its magnetic field to:

Afour times
Bdouble
Cone fourth
Dhalf
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. half
For a long wire B = mu0 I/(2 pi r), so B is inversely proportional to r and halves when r doubles.
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