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Insights Symmetry Arguments and the Infinite Wire with a Current
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Undergrad What determines if wave components are independent vs coherent?
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Graduate 3D rendering of electric field lines of a swiftly moving charge
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Graduate Reflections at the source point of a transmission line
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High School Do Electrons Completely Leave a Capacitor at T/4 in an LC Circuit?
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Undergrad Paradox of Superconductivity
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Undergrad How to picture the vector potential?
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Undergrad Griffith, Electrodynamics, 4th Edition, Example 4.8. (Second part)
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Inducing EMF Through a Coil: Understanding Flux
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Graduate Free surface problem in electrohydrodynamics
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High School Applying the Gauss (1835) formula for force between 2 parallel DC currents
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Undergrad Maxwell stress tensor
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Undergrad Why measure the speed of light in one direction?
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Undergrad Motional EMF in Faraday disc, co-rotating magnet axial mean flux
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Undergrad E field in a wire
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Undergrad Why isn’t there an equation to describe how energy is redistributed by destructive interference of an electromagnetic wave?
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Undergrad Why are Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force "so different"?
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High School What is the difference between B and H?
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Undergrad Lightning rods -- how confusing can they be?
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Undergrad Applying Lorentz Force correctly
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Undergrad Extending a magnetic flux field from the tip of a rod
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Undergrad Does destructive interference of an electromagnetic wave create negative energy?
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Graduate What is Exponent b in Voltage-to-Area Flaw Relationships?
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Undergrad Capacitor surface charge movement current, relativistic effects
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Undergrad Charge movement relative to magnetic field frame dependence/invariance
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Undergrad Two ways of constructing electromagnetism, which is correct?
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High School Single phase induction motor Torque under increased frequency and Same Current
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Undergrad Discontinuity of Electric field
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Undergrad Magnetic dipole and a torque
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Undergrad Electric field of ring at any point
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High School Is Newton's third law getting violated here?
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Undergrad Direction of magnetic force
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Undergrad Electrical breakdown in air in the presence of a single charge
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Undergrad Is it possible to create an electromagnet to pull itself to Earth?
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Graduate Does a DC supplied wavy superconductor give off EM radiation?
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Undergrad Computing the capacitance of a strange material
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Undergrad Slowing down a moving electric charge
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Undergrad Coulomb's law taken to the extreme
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Undergrad Integral and differential forms of field equations
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Undergrad Is it possible to apply Gauss' law to a Klein bottle?
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Undergrad Confused about work done on charge
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Undergrad Can the polarization bound charge density be expressed in vacuum by a wave function?
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High School Confused regarding Electricity Basics; Helping Kid with Project
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Undergrad Antenna made from a pair of metal cones, radiation gain verses frequency.
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Undergrad Visualizing fields around coils (statics and magnetostatics)
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Undergrad E-field around charged finite wire - intractable or not?
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Undergrad Questions related to magnetic shielding separating two like poles
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Undergrad Shape and value of the Liénard–Wiechert potential
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Undergrad Behaviour of EM-wave near a non-resonant antenna
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Undergrad Can the wavelength of electromagnetic waves infinitely close to 0hz
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Undergrad What accelerates the light back to its constant speed?
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Undergrad Numerical calculations of a railgun yielded disappointing results
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Undergrad Parallel plate capacitor, charge imbalance VS charge redistribution
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High School Why Does My Toaster Hum Due to AC-Induced Magnetic Forces?
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Undergrad An intuitive explanation of multipole expansion
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Undergrad Preventing Corona Discharge from Wimshurst Machine
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High School Coil that conducts direct current
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Undergrad EM wave decomposition to axis components in the Rayleigh-Jeans cube
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Undergrad Building a Faraday cage with a conductive cloth and magnets
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High School Experiment issues (electromagnetism)
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Undergrad Measure the Capacitance of a condenser
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Undergrad Appropriate coordinates for a given electric field
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Undergrad Electric field inside & outside of a spherical shell
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Graduate Numerical solution of the Poisson equation
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Undergrad Outside of two oppositely charged infinite planes
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Undergrad What is the significance of dipole moments in physics?
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High School Why is there induced current in a DC motor?
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High School Why is the net acceleration of an electron in a conductor zero?
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Undergrad How induction works within a coil (nuances of it)
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Graduate Origin of Hertzian dipole radiation
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High School High voltage batteries and charge distribution
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Undergrad Why does the phase of the reflected wave from a denser medium change?
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Undergrad When is Ampere's Law applicable in different scenarios?
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Undergrad Would an BLDC motor with rotor winded like a mirrored stator rotate?
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Undergrad Magnetic field as result of length contraction
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Graduate Resistance Force on Gas in Magnetohydrodynamic Generator
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Undergrad Does path independence still hold if permittivity is non-uniform?
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High School Some Questions about Electric Current/Capacitors to help my understanding
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Undergrad Electric arc length in relation to voltage
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Undergrad Electrical characteristics of a solenoid coil
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Undergrad Video: 'How electricity actually works'
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Undergrad Do electromagnetic fields have momentum?
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Undergrad How Does a Magneto Work in Aviation?
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Undergrad Charging a small metal ball from a charged hollow sphere
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Undergrad Potential difference between a battery's terminal and Earth ground
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Undergrad Energy transfer during gas discharge
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Undergrad Is This Correct Description of Magnetic Saturation?
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High School Rogowski coil tension calculation formula
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Undergrad Conditions for applying Gauss' Law
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Undergrad Why Can Tzz in Maxwell's Stress Tensor Be Non-Zero in Electrostatics?
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Undergrad Temperature vs Magnetic Strength (Flux) relationship in ferromagnets
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Undergrad Feynman Lectures Question on Figure 26-2: "It appears that action is not equal to reaction"
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High School E. Potential Energy: Uniformly Charged Hollow Sphere and Point Charge
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Undergrad Confusion regarding insulator and conductors
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Undergrad The potential on the rim of a uniformly charged disk
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High School Force Exerted on a Conductor by a Homogeneous Magnetic Field
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High School Electric Field Created by a Finite Plate
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High School Electric Field Created by 2 Infinite Plates
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Undergrad Getting a reduced voltage from a fixed secondary voltage of a transformer
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Undergrad Question about microwave reflections
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High School Will My DIY Capacitor Light Up a 6VAC Bulb in Series?
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