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High School Why the Neutral Wire Causes No Electric Shock

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Undergrad Capacitors,dielectrics and electrostatic forces

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High School Photoelectric effect (questions)

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Undergrad Magnetic field between two solenoids

  • motornoob101
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High School Understanding Wavelength & Frequency: c vs. v

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Undergrad 5.8Ghz phones, less harmful than 2.4Ghz?

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High School How do conductors and insulators behave in an electric field?

  • rowkem
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Undergrad Understanding Electric Discharges in Gas Tubes: Experiments and Atomic Structure

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Undergrad Magnetic Fields: I don't understand cylindrical current systems

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Undergrad Why is my Faraday cage not working?

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Undergrad Exploding Polarized Capacitors - Causes and Mechanisms

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High School Help understanding theory of Charge distribution

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High School A few questions about Resistance and DC Circuits

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High School Why do we convert a galvanometer into voltmeter and ammeter?

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Undergrad How Do Revolutions Per Second Impact Force in Eddy-Current Speedometers?

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Undergrad Kinetic Energy -> Electrical Energy

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High School Why Don't Metals Get Charged by Friction?

  • manjuvenamma
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Undergrad Understanding the Difference Between B and E Fields

  • manjuvenamma
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Undergrad What is the Visual Model for Voltage?

  • meemoe_uk
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Undergrad Voltage question (photoelectric effect)

  • Physicsissuef
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Graduate Electric power transmission - what is different at a particle level?

  • SciencePF
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Undergrad Calculating Energy Stored in a Metallic Object in a Magnetic Field

  • rsr_life
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Undergrad Electromagnets and Permanent Magnets

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Undergrad Understanding Static Electricity: How Walking on Carpet Creates Voltage

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Undergrad Ampere's Law and partial-circular wires.

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Undergrad Question about frequency versus wavelength

  • noospace
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High School Can you shape a magnetic field?

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High School How can I improve the functionality of my Zune radio transmitter?

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Graduate Magnetic field outside a solenoid in 3D in terms of position

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Undergrad Charged objects and the force between them?

  • manjuvenamma
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High School Why only gold in leaf electroscope?

  • manjuvenamma
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Undergrad Resistance: An Electrical Density of Materials

  • anonymoussome
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High School Why magnetic field deflects a charged particle.?

  • Aladin
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High School How Long Can Magnets Maintain Their Properties in a Repelling Magnetic Field?

  • The_Thinker
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Graduate Is Magnetic Reconnection a Valid Phenomenon in Astronomy?

  • PlasmaSphere
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Undergrad What Is the Potential at the Surface of a Charged Conductor Plate?

  • manjuvenamma
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Undergrad Using a magnetometer to compute the magentic moment of a magnet.

  • manjuvenamma
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Undergrad What determins the electrical resistivity of different metals?

  • lwymarie
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High School Where does the energy in a discharged capacitor go?

  • roeryda
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Undergrad Experimental proof of electrostatic equilibrium

  • yoran
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Undergrad Component form of magnetic field

  • mgoff87
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Graduate Why Can Tight-Binding and DFT Models Assume Electrons are Non-Interacting?

  • Nusc
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Undergrad Magnetic field in a particle accelerator

  • mgoff87
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High School Why is the Small LED on my Screwdriver Lighting Up?

  • Mephisto
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Undergrad Is current a vector or scalar?

  • manjuvenamma
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Undergrad Electric charge attraction and repulsion

  • carbrook
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High School Why or How an electron REVOLVE around the Atom ?

  • mhd
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Unexplained Magnetism: My Strange Experience with Store Alarms

  • DMC CB OD
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Graduate What is the correct definition of an electric field from a line of charge?

  • kmeatball
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High School Questions about Electrical Field and Magnetic Field

  • shinigami66
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Undergrad How does electromagnetic induction work on different types of wire?

  • unseensoul
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Undergrad Lighting bulbs with magnetic fields

  • rohanprabhu
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Graduate First Time Electron Filmed: What's Going On?

  • MonstersFromTheId
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High School How Does Current Flow Create a Magnetic Field Around a Wire?

  • v_pino
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Graduate Electrodynamics problem: charge origin?

  • Wiemster
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Undergrad Trying to understand Magnetic Braking

  • JonathanS
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Undergrad LC Circuit: Initial Conditions and Switch

  • AiRAVATA
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Undergrad Does a Negative Charged Conductor Ice Pail Lose Charges When Touched Inside?

  • Volcano
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Graduate No Magnetic Fields: Divergence & Curl of B=0

  • jackxx
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Graduate Does Gauss' Law Hold for Non-Conservative Electric Fields?

  • miss photon
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Undergrad Ampere's swimming rule about magnetic field around a current carrying conductor

  • manjuvenamma
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High School What is the relationship between electric force and distance between particles?

  • mooneh
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Electrical Resistance in Complex Geometric Shapes?

  • nrhk
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Electric Fields & Atoms

  • david20
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Graduate Charges on Faraday ice bucket like conductors

  • Volcano
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Graduate Shield Principle Clarified: Inside-Outside Electric Field Independency

  • babblingsia
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Undergrad Electric field formula vs coulombs law, contradiction?

  • Kurret
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Undergrad Differential Form of Gauss's Law

  • Feldoh
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Graduate Wavelength of an Electromagnetic wave

  • rohanprabhu
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Undergrad Doesn't Alternating current cause fatigue?

  • rohanprabhu
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Undergrad Induction of a coil and force exerted on magnet in a magnetic field

  • Detektyw
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High School Create an Electric Device that Lights Up 2 Feet Away | DIY Guide

  • umaga
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Undergrad Electrostatic forces and the principle of superposition

  • anam89
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High School Electrostatic Experiments: Why Not Work on Humid Days?

  • anam89
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Graduate Induction in an inflating loop in constant B?

  • Lojzek
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Graduate New intros to Maxwell's Equations, Special and General Relativity

  • Will Flannery
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Graduate Trying to understand Electromagnetic waves

  • rohanprabhu
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Undergrad What is the potential difference and charge on capacitors connected in series?

  • mer584
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High School How to Define Electric Charge?

  • Behrooz
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Graduate How does t=1 second relate to the Planck length?

  • yasar1967
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High School Understanding Ampere's Law: What Does the Current Enclosed Mean?

  • JasonBourneV
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Undergrad Conceptual Question on Current

  • Grapz
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Undergrad Make an Electromagnetic Motor: Overcome Short-Circuiting

  • v_pino
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High School Understanding Magnetic Flux: Visualization & Beyond

  • v_pino
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High School What property of a magnet determines which side of it is N or S?

  • v_pino
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High School What frequency is a dog whistle and a tv at?

  • echoSwe
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Graduate Dirac Delta function and charge density.

  • calcisforlovers
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High School Do the electrons spend energy, and where that energy goes?

  • Physicsissuef
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Undergrad Example for Poynting's Theorem

  • shynee
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Undergrad Questioning of fundamentals of current flow

  • rohanprabhu
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Undergrad Is Sitting on an Electric Wire Harmless for Birds?

  • drpizza
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High School Leyden Jar Capacitor Recharging?

  • stringtheory
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High School Antenna and Magnet: A Curious Explorer's Tale

  • Imparcticle
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Undergrad Minimum wavelength of light and electrons? Microscope related.

  • Energize
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Undergrad Magnetic Flux Density: B, \phi, H - True or False?

  • unseensoul
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Undergrad Where does the energy come from?

  • philrainey
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High School Out of the Loop (no pun intended)

  • Devious Squir
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Graduate Slightly philosophical question about magnetism

  • pterid
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Electrocuted by household static…?

  • rpellerin87
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Undergrad Why does Coulomb's Law have a pi in the denominator while Gauss' Law does not?

  • Old Guy
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