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High School Is lightning caused by the cloud acting as a capacitor?

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Graduate Ohm's law and emf for non static electric fields

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Undergrad Why is charge a scalar in physics?

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Graduate How Are Debye Length and Ohm's Law Related?

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Undergrad Why does Saran Wrap become charged?

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Undergrad Five questions about electromagnetic radiation

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Graduate Parallel plate capacitor with layers of dielectrics in between

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Graduate Necessity for action to be a Lorentz scalar

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Graduate Direct conversion from heat to electrical energy

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Undergrad Electric Flux: Understand and Calculate

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Graduate Why are magnetic and electric fields not considered the same?

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Undergrad Why can't a closed conductor have excess charge inside?

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Undergrad Direction of the Force from an EM Wave

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Graduate MRI question: Production of EM Waves using magnets

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Undergrad Maximizing Ultrasonic Wave Production with Magnetostriction Method

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Undergrad Electric Field Zero on Gaussian Surface with No Charges

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Graduate Electromagnetics question for physicists/engineers

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Graduate Free electron beam inducing an EM field in a target?

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Graduate Derivation of Faraday's Law from Lorentz's

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Graduate Separation of Variables In Electrostatics

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Undergrad Confusion in understanding how electric heating works

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Undergrad Difference between Coulomb's and E-static?

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Undergrad Asymmetrical charged parallel plates capacitor

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High School What is an EM wave composed of?

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Graduate Confusion about transformer and flux

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Graduate Understanding Orbital Shapes: The Probability of Electron Location

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Undergrad Are There Really Slow Moving Electrons?

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Graduate Is Electric Potential the Key to Understanding Earnshaw's Theorem?

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Graduate Electrostatic discharge and metal rods

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Graduate How Do Unpaired Electron Orbits React to External Magnetic Fields?

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Undergrad Inducing a signal in a wire over a short distance

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Graduate Radiation of an accelerating charge

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Graduate Gradient of Scalar Field: Compact Magnetization Density

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Undergrad Replacing Batteries in Chair Lift with DC Power Supply

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High School A different definition of radiation flux

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Undergrad Number of photons in photoelectric effect

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High School Do AM waves have symmetrical amplitude?

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Graduate How do charges redistribute in a conductive sphere with a charged object inside?

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High School Electric current in household wires

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Undergrad Using magnets to hold an object in place on a large timber beam.

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Undergrad Electric field inside a cavity

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Graduate What is the relationship between current density and position and time?

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Graduate What is the electric potential of Earth?

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Graduate Electrons acceleration in a wire

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Graduate Maxwell's equation which convective derivative

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Undergrad How do transformers obey ohm's law?

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Graduate Non stationary currents and Ohm's law.

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Graduate In what year was proposed that light is an electromagnetic wave?

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Undergrad How do electrical pulses limit the bandwidth of a standard telephone line?

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Undergrad Electromagnetic waves and charge

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High School In order to generate electricity is copper required?

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High School Paramagnetic Substance: Attraction to Magnetic Field

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Undergrad How to Find Most Current Physics Models

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Graduate Calculating power and energy based on frequency and amplitude (pascal)

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Undergrad Why Does My Guitar Amp Sound Different in My Basement Compared to Live Venues?

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Undergrad Electric current in bulk material

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Undergrad Work by External Force on an electric field

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Undergrad Faraday's paradox: homopolar generator on a train

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Graduate Faraday's law for electrostatics

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Undergrad (Electro)magnetic properties of mylar? If you wrap a laptop in mylar

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High School What Is the Direction of Current in a Circuit Without Simplifying It?

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High School What is voltage and how to look at it intellectually?

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Undergrad Meter Bridge Experiment: Limitations for Measuring Small Resistance

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Graduate Is a Virtual Photon Flux the Same as Ether?

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Graduate Electrostatic charge or dieletric field?

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Undergrad What creates the electric field in an electric circuit?

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Graduate Curiosity about current density

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Graduate Biot–Savart law: the origin of chirality?

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Graduate Free electrons and intrinsic spin magnetic dipole moment orientation?

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Undergrad Magnet Type for Heat Engine: Alnico or Rare Earth?

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Undergrad Electric field, Equipotential surfaces

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Graduate Electrodynamics (Lorentz to Faraday)

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Undergrad Current carrying conductor has a net force parallel to earth, why?

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Graduate Three Dimensional Charge Density in Capacitor Plates

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Undergrad If a battery can't supply enough current, does voltage read lower?

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Undergrad Can Accumulating Charges Be Increased by Placing Machines Underwater?

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Undergrad Have i got the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERMITTIVITY AND PERMEABILITY Right?

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Graduate Light bending with electric or magnetic field?

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Undergrad Conduction of electricity in semiconductors

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Graduate Electricity Generation by piezoelectric effect in Injection Moulding

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Undergrad Coulomb interaction not affected by presence of other charges

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Graduate What is the relationship between voltage, electric potential, and power?

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Undergrad What is Resistivity? Definition & Equations

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Graduate What is Permittivity? Definition & Explanation

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Graduate What is the Definition and Function of a Magnetic Field?

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Graduate What Are the Fundamental Principles of Maxwell's Equations?

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Undergrad What is Impedance? A 5 Minute Introduction

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Graduate What is Free Charge? Definition and Explanation

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Graduate What are the differences between scalar and vector flux in electromagnetism?

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Graduate What is the Definition and Function of a Field in Physics?

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Graduate What is the Definition and Function of an Electric Field?

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Undergrad Is There a Significance to FSsinθ in Electrical Circuits?

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Graduate Electric and Magnetic Units: Definition and Summary

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Graduate Coulomb's Law: Definition & Summary

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Graduate Definition of Conductor: What is a Conductor?

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Graduate What is a Capacitor: Definition, Summary & Equations

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High School What happens when charge enters the resistor?

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Undergrad How do vectors and electric field lines differ in representing electric fields?

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Undergrad How is a Galvanometer Converted into an Ammeter Using a Shunt?

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Graduate Is it really true that "no charge builds up" in a circuit?

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