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Undergrad Calculating the field outside a solenoid

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Graduate What composes the E Field of the Electromagnetic Wave?

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Undergrad Probably a Dumb Question: How are E and (delta)V correlated?

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Undergrad 2 Questions: How Electric Potential affects a charge

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Undergrad Energy imparted to an ion by a magnetic field

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Graduate What is the curl of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux?

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Undergrad Photoelectric effect and bound electrons

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Undergrad Why Inductors Create Large Voltage When Switch Opened

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High School How much less wind resistance will a round skyscraper have?

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Graduate Self inductance of a superconductor

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High School How to prevent static from building up on me

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Graduate One magnet motor that does not break any thermodynamic rules

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Undergrad Differentiating Biot-Savart Law

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Undergrad Are light waves/ EM waves damped?

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Undergrad Heat produced when a dielectric is inserted into a capacitor slowly

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Graduate Lorentz force on a charge due to a moving magnet

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Undergrad Electric Potential reference value (or zero).

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Graduate Interaction between two charged surfaces in contact

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High School How to find the appropriate area in Gauss' law

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Undergrad Equation for the motion of an iron particle in a magnetic field

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Graduate Surface Charge - Poynting Vector - DC circuit power flow

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High School Is Electricity the Same as the Motion of Electrons or Charges?

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High School Levitating a magnet in a Bismuth bowl?

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Graduate Finding the acoustic point in a valley

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Graduate Permanent magnets still an open problem

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Graduate Are Maxwell's Equations True at the Quantum Scale?

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Graduate An electric charge feels its own self electric field

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Graduate Particle in an Electromagnetic Field

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Graduate Why doesn't a charge repel a magnetic field in this example?

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Undergrad Faraday's law for constant velocity, area and B-field

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Undergrad Electrostatic polarization and paper bits attraction

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Graduate A photon vs an electron. Wave or particle?

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Undergrad Why do the extra terms cancel in the derivation of the EM field strength tensor?

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Undergrad Understanding Voltage Distribution in Series Circuits

  • Glenn G
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Graduate Deriving Magnostatics equations from steady currents

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Undergrad Proof of Ampere's Circuital Law: Using the Biot-Savart Law

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Graduate Need for Lorentz transformation in pre-relativity period

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High School Why Is the Potential Energy of a Dipole Zero at 90 Degrees?

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Undergrad What causes alternator waveform shape?

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Undergrad Do charges accelerate because their field lines are changed?

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Undergrad Magnetic Dipole: Discovering μ and Its Origin

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Undergrad Explanation of Biot-Savart Law

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Undergrad Understanding the Rise of Current in DC RL Circuits

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Undergrad What is actually happening to a charge in a magnetic field?

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Undergrad Inhibit repulsion between two like poles

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Undergrad What is the Pull Strength of a 48v Battery on a 1.5 Ton Weight with DC Power?

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Undergrad What are the considerations for analyzing current through thin gold wires?

  • Joshua L
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Graduate Is there energy associated with flux pinning?

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Undergrad -- E/M conceptual question regarding electric potential

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Graduate Experimental investigation of c in electric & magnetic fields

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High School Is the direction of electric field the direction of current?

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Graduate Dielectric slab and angle of incidence

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Undergrad Magnetic field when relative velocity is zero

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Undergrad Why Does Charge Flow Between Capacitor Plates When Shorted?

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Undergrad Why would a parallel circuit (or in blood) decrease resistance

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Graduate Is the electromagnetic propagation time asymmetrical?

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Graduate Electron in orbit of around a single proton

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High School Electric field question -- Charges....

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Undergrad Dipole above infnite conductor

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Graduate Different versions of covariant Maxwell's equations

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Undergrad The right definition of magnetic field?

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Undergrad Finding the Capacitance of the Earth

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Undergrad Electric field inside a cavity

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Undergrad Do Electrons Change Location as Temperature Approaches 0K?

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Undergrad Why doesn't the wasp die when I hit it with a fly swatter?

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Undergrad Magnetic field direction on Halbach array?

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Undergrad What Are the Theories Behind Changing Electric Field Line Patterns?

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Graduate Two hemispheres, and a shell inside dielectric material

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Graduate Interesting experiment about the attraction between two magnets

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Undergrad Why an electron's drift velocity is so slow?

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Graduate Magnetic field due to displacement current and Ampere's law

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Graduate Spectral intensities from E&M fields

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Graduate EM wave penetration through walls....

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Undergrad Voltages in an induced current

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Graduate Rigorous definition of magnetic poles?

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High School Ampere & Coulomb: Discovering Electrons in 1800's?

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High School Did James Clerk Maxwell Ever Draw a Picture of an Electromagnetic Wave?

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Undergrad The difference between Ampere's law & Biot-Savart Law

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High School Tesla Tower Transmission Question

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Undergrad Drawing flux and induced EMF graphs - Faraday's/Lenz's law

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Undergrad Excess charge on insulators and conductors

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High School Induction Electric - Does Iron/Steel Work?

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Graduate Maxwell's/Faraday Law Concern Propagation of Induced Fields

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High School What sort of material stops magnetic flow

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High School The factors determining the induced EMF in a wire

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High School How does a battery make a current?

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Undergrad Why must a Faraday cage be hollow?

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High School Magnetism on Earth: Effects & Applications

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Undergrad Electrical heating transmission wires

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Graduate Are magnets charged with rotation?

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Graduate E and B fields for charged particle's parabolic motion

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High School Are the second and third circuits same as the first one?

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High School Sound wave -- positive and negative frequency?

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Undergrad Resistance from fingertip to Earth wire

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Undergrad Is It Safe to Connect Batteries in Parallel?

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Graduate How Does Melting Affect the Polarizability and Dielectric Constant of a Medium?

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High School Direction of current in Kirchoff's second law

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High School Frequencies -- what is the average frequency for the human body?

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Graduate Magnetic Gears For Power Transmission

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Graduate Ionization energy of an electric field

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