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Undergrad Why do the plates attract in Rene's experiment?

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Undergrad F=qvB: Questions about Charge & Velocity

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Undergrad Problem about electric resistance

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Undergrad Mutual Inductance and Transformer Question

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High School Which sphere will be heavier: one with a charge of 0.0000001C or one with 100C?

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Graduate Electromagnetic Black hole phenomena

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Undergrad Does an Electric Field Outside of a Wire Supply Energy to a Resistor?

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High School Are magnetic fields conservative field?

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Graduate What is the Divergence of a Point Charge in Cartesian Coordinates?

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High School Uses of an Isolation Transformer

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High School Solving LED Power Supply Issues: Tips from John

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Graduate Electromagnetic Radiation from a Rotating Magnet

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Graduate Producing High Frequency Waves in Labs - YoctoHertz Limitations

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High School Assistance Needed For Rearranging Equations

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Graduate What Determines Q(free) in Dielectrics?

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Undergrad Electromagnetic wave attenuation

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Undergrad Felt like I understood circuits until

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Undergrad Electromagnetic induction; bike dynamo

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Graduate Physics Puzzle: Magnetic Field Generated by Approximation of a Flower

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Graduate Gaussian Units: Electric Field

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Graduate Send Signals from a Distance: EM Radiation or Gravity?

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Graduate Magnetic acceleration of a ship in space (hyper-particle-acceleration?)

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Undergrad Question about charge by induction

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Graduate Electron Collision: Proton & Electron Interaction

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Graduate Using e=mc^2 to calculate electrical properties

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Graduate What is the current best estimate for LHC online

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High School What is the difference between voltage drop and wattage?

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Undergrad Does the electric field change due to rotation

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Graduate Uses of very large magnetic fields

  • trini
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Graduate Light from non accelerating charge?

  • gonchenshi
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Graduate Confusion with nature of induced electric field.

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Direction of Motion of Electrons

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Graduate Proving Gauss's Law with Coulomb's Law: Challenges and Solutions

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High School What is the Difference Between Magnetic and Electric Flux?

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Undergrad Electric field of a current loop

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Undergrad Solving Solenoid Field Problem: B=urNI & Force on Iron

  • I_am_learning
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Undergrad Confusion about the nature of magnetic forces.

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High School How to Find the Phase Difference in Degrees

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Undergrad Energy Absorption: How Atoms Interact with Waves

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Graduate Lorentz force -> Current in a gradient field

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Graduate Accelerating Charges: Classical Theory and Light Radiation

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Graduate Flux of magnetic moment into a coil

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Undergrad The distribution of charges in a conductor

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Undergrad Damping , resonance and natural frequency?

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Graduate Electron repulsion per unit volume

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High School Contradiction on electric field ?

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Graduate How do two charged particles move in an electromagnetic field?

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Undergrad Unanswered Question: Who Does Mechanical Work for Magnetism?

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Undergrad Electrostatic repulsion formula for plates

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High School Understanding Power and Energy Calculations for Electrical Output

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High School Electric Field Direction: How to Determine Left or Right Orientation

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High School How is voltage by itself important?

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Graduate Can Known Electric and Magnetic Fields be Used to Derive Current Sources?

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Undergrad Effect of Resistance on Current

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Undergrad Why do both Coulomb and Gravity follow 1/r^2 laws?

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Graduate Diffusing an electron beam throughout a chamber

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High School Is Pulsing Current the Same as Alternating Current?

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Undergrad Energy of an uniformly charged bar of length L

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Undergrad Speed of Electricity in Wiring - Why near light speed?

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Graduate Electronic theremal conductivity

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Graduate Coulomb's Law at Very Short Distance Scales

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Undergrad Capacitors in magnetic fields?

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Graduate Why Do Two Methods Yield Different Results for Charging a Sphere?

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Undergrad Stable Magnet Energy What's their source?

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Undergrad London Forces in a body that's conducting electricity

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Graduate Two oppositely charged infinite conducting plates

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Undergrad Field lines of a ring of magnets?

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Undergrad Capacitance of Right Angle plates

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Graduate Difference in potential induced by a magnetostatic field? O_o

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Graduate Question about current in an infinite circuit

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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect: Wavelengths & Metals

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Undergrad E-field & electric potential of a metal conductor

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Graduate Line of charge as a volume charge dist. (w/ Dirac delta fcn.)

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Undergrad Simple Voltage in Conducting Spherical Shell Question

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Graduate How to get zero electric field inside spherical shell without using Gauss law

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High School I'm confused about power and voltage.

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Undergrad Understanding Electric Field Addition for Opposite Charges

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Graduate About polarization and electric field

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Undergrad Regarding heat property of electromagnetic waves

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Undergrad Inductance in Kirchoff's voltage law

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Graduate How Does Shape Affect the Calculation of Induced Electric Fields?

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Undergrad How does an electric field create a magnetic field and relativity

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Graduate Visualizing EM Waves: 3D Model & Resonant Cavity Simulation in Java Applet

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Graduate General relationship for direction of E field at any given point

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Undergrad Pumping electrons without magnetics?

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Graduate Q on Jackson. Lorentz force modification for radiation?

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Undergrad Kirchhoff's Law and current Sources?

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Undergrad Electric Potential energy for geometric objects

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Undergrad Explaining Voltage/Current/Resistance to non-physicists

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Undergrad Question about capacitors with dielectrics

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Graduate Compute the volume charge density of a charged spherical conductor

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Graduate Derivation of Lagrangian for Classical Electrodynamics

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Graduate Electromagnetic force calculation

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Undergrad What's the physics behind this phenomena (sound / electromagnetics)

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High School Find Best Metal for DIY Capacitor Experiments

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Undergrad How much energy can be generated from a 1000kg weight using a hydraulic system?

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What Are the Best Ways to Store Energy from a Perpetual Magnetic Generator?

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Graduate Can magnetic flux be surpressed or added to?

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Undergrad Can You Generate Power from a Wrapped Power Cord and a Metal Hanger?

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Undergrad Safety of Touching Charged Sphere on Insulating Stool

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