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Graduate How to define ##\nabla \cdot D ## at the interface between dielectrics

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Undergrad Coil Around A Tube - Iron Cylinder Inside Tube - How Many Turns Needed?

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Graduate Why electromagnetic tensor (Faraday 2-form) is exact? (and not closed)

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High School Can we say that a charged balloon has a center of charge?

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Undergrad Vector Potential Multipole Expansion

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High School Can a wire be called a resistor?

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Graduate Is the mass of the electron constant?

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Undergrad Is there such a thing as an active diamagnet?

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High School Decompose the E field into conservative and non-conservative parts

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High School What's "Coulomb's law but ##F## converges as ##r\rightarrow##0" called?

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Graduate PPMT, Magnetic Flux Switch, electro-permanent magnet generator

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Undergrad Questions about a Conductor in an Electric Field

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High School Can a rocket flame be controlled by a magnetic field?

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Undergrad Deriving expression for resistance in terms of current density

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High School Voltage gradient distortion in Copper when part is over a magnet

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Graduate Formula for force between two sheets of aluminum foil under voltage

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Undergrad Do volume integrals involve bounding surfaces?

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Graduate Electric field within a battery

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Undergrad Faraday's Law Equation: Derivative vs Delta

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Undergrad Induced electric fields and induced magnetic fields confusion

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Undergrad The electric field inside and outside of a dielectric

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Graduate U(1) invariance of classical electromagnetism

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Graduate Exploring the Electric Field of a Moving Charged Spherical Shell

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High School Is there some electrical charge that is neither positive nor negative?

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High School Understanding Lewin's Circuit Paradox: Explained Simply and Clearly

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High School Uniform charge distribution in a conductor

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Undergrad Why is the electric field within a conducting sphere 0?

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High School Magnetic fields attracting two disc-shaped magnets

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Graduate Rotating a spherical conductor in an Electric field

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Undergrad How does a rotating magnet create levitation?

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High School What magnetic fields can this hollow rod shield?

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High School Static Point Charge Should Have Zero Effect

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High School Voltage & Current: Explaining the Basics for Beginners

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Undergrad What happens to resistance of tap water as voltage is increased?

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Undergrad Why Do I Get Electrically Shocked by Metal Objects?

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Undergrad Why is the electric field in y direction in a TE guided wave?

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Undergrad How do I visualize the magnetic field?

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Undergrad Parameters of the rough surface (for electromagnetic scattering)

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Undergrad Fundamental - Magnetic fields generated by moving electrons

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Undergrad How Does a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer Calculate Magnetic Moment?

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Undergrad Where is this term coming from?

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Undergrad Dielectric constant, dispersion and response of the medium

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Undergrad Can the A and φ potentials be fixed in a region of space?

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Undergrad A and ϕ inside a Faraday cage?

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High School Method of images and spherical coordinates

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High School Does a Faraday Cage trap EMF inside and increase exposure?

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Undergrad Faraday cage made of a real conductor

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Undergrad Can I send an electromagnetic wave to a specific point?

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Undergrad Where do discontinuities in the electromagnetic field occur?

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Undergrad Are EM signals also analytical backwards in time?

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Undergrad Homopolar generator question: Magnetic “wake”

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High School Doppler effect on electromagnetic waves in a car

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Undergrad Can Current Density Static Create an Effective Electromagnetic Shield?

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Graduate A question about current density in finite element analysis

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Graduate Relationship between magnetic potential and current density in Maxwell

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Undergrad Does the electrical force also respect the Kepler Laws?

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Undergrad Can trains use permanent magnets to be propelled?

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Undergrad Does the speed of light imply ....

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Undergrad Some questions about how electrical transformers work

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Undergrad Biological examples of a Biot-Savart law in magnetostatics?

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High School Phase Difference of Current & Voltage: Capacitors, Inductors & Complex Numbers

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Graduate Puzzled about Section 3.12 of Jackson's E&M book

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Undergrad How Do Magnetic Forces Differ Between Magnets and Wires?

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Undergrad Question about the motion of a charged particle

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Undergrad Tangential electric force at a surface

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Undergrad Question regarding Laplace's Equation for regions with charges

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Graduate Approximating integrals of Bessel functions

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Undergrad Query on Electromagnetic Theory (Dielectric Boundary Conditions)

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Undergrad Is electromotive force always equal to potential difference?

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Graduate Power consumed by electron gun

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Undergrad Why does metal moving though a magnetic field slow down?

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Undergrad Defining the Forces from Magnetic Fields and Electric Fields

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Undergrad EM Four-Potential and INDUCED Electric Fields

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Undergrad How do I find the Direction of an induced electric field?

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High School What's the reason microwave oven frequencies are at 2.45 Ghz?

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Undergrad Is there traction force between moving electrons & copper wire?

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Undergrad Can visible light cause fluorescence in colorful objects?

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Undergrad How Does the Maxwell-Faraday Law Apply to Stealth Magnets and EMF Induction?

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Undergrad Why can't objects be seen if the wavelength is too long?

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High School Direction of Electric Field & Field Due to a Dipole

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High School Calculating Force on an Iron Object with Magnetic Field

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Undergrad Faraday induction in constant B field, with non-conduction wires

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Undergrad Outright understanding L/R inductor time constant

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Undergrad Energy of an electromagnetic wave

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Undergrad Inductor questions (generate a voltage opposing the source voltage?)

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Undergrad Magnetic field strength of a stack of magnets

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Undergrad Can current flow in an open circuit?

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Undergrad What Happens to Ions Generated by a Destat Apparatus?

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Undergrad Electric Field & Interplay between Coordinate Systems | DJ Griffiths

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Undergrad Two molecules with different polarizability in an EM field

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Undergrad How an induced electric dipole vibrates with EM field

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Undergrad Rayleigh scattering -- What is the true reason for the color of the sky?

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Undergrad A smaller cross-sectional area increases the resistance of a conductor?

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Undergrad Does Ohm's Law work for Light Bulbs?

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Undergrad Electric field of a moving charge that's abruptly stopped

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Undergrad The Curious Case of The Impotent Magnets

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Undergrad Can a Core-less Dynamo Really Achieve Double Efficiency?

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Undergrad Helmholtz's theorem and charge density

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Insights A Physics Misconception with Gauss’ Law

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Graduate What Is the Coulomb Gauge in Electromagnetic Theory?

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