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If a cart is moving in the x-direction and has a bar (not a pedulum) attached to its center that will rotate, what are the terms of the kinetic energy? I'm having a hard time figuring out what the kinetic engery of the rotating+translating bar is. Can someone break it all down into each of the...

The molecules have equal charges. Would the fields effectively cancel each other resulting in no net effect?

But wouldn't a field be induced at the other molecule by the polarity of the first?

Well, it turns out that the dipole moment does not depend on the electric field. But I don't know why. That's what I'm trying to get here.

Here is the question: Find the dependence of the van der Waals force on separation distance between two polar molecules.

I'm a third year AE at Georgia Tech. Getting into the real courses now. The first couple of years were disappointing. The professors don't really attempt to make any investment in the interested students and a lot of my peers have grown complacent and just do enough to get by. Some of the...

Why is it that for the case of two polar molecules the dipole moment does not depend on the electric field from the dipoles?