Magnetism

Magnetic Field

A moving charge causes a magnetic field, following the right hand rule: Your thumb pointing towards the direction of movement of the positive charge, and your other fingers wrap around to indicate the direction of the magnetic field.

A circulating current forms a magnetic dipole.

Calculate Field

${\vec {B}}({\vec {r}})={\frac {\mu _{0}}{4\pi }}{\frac {I_{1}d{\vec {l}}_{1}\times {\hat {r}}}{r^{2}}}={\frac {\mu _{0}}{4\pi }}{\frac {\left|Idl\right|}{r^{3}}}\rho {\hat {e}}_{\phi }$

Where $\mu _{0}$ is magnetic permeability, and $\rho$ is distance from the wire.

Magnetic field of a current with right hand rule

Any component going along the direction of current is cancelled by cross product. Something else. Therefore, it is unsurprising that magnetic field is circulating.