Recent content by Minjin

Thanks for the response. I didn't consider that.

Hi, I was lying in bed unable to get back to sleep and I was thinking about something, remembered this forum, and thought I'd post it up here. Hopefully this topic is suitable for this forum. I installed a ceiling fan in my bedroom yesterday. Its a nice 44in Hunter fan and I'm pretty happy...

Ok, I can certainly visualize that the lines will remain parallel and won't spread out as they go from one plate to the other. I just can't seem to convince myself that the intensity of the field doesn't go down. I kind of see it like a rope held horizontal. No matter how hard you pull on both...

I just registered on this forum to ask a question about electric fields so I might as well ask in this thread rather than create a new one. How is it possible to have a uniform electric field? I know we simplify things to make them easier to understand and calculate but my teacher was...