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    Comparing acidity among 3 compounds - pic included

    Homework Statement http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3643/acidspicem4.th.jpg http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php My book says that if I attach an electron-donating group to an acid, it would decrease the acidity of that acid because the electrons would cause the already negative ion to...
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    Optics - what image will I see if I stand in positions A,B,C (pics included)

    Hi. I included a pic with the diagrams of a mirror problem. Blue line is the object, black is image. Now, to the problem. I know that if I stand at position A, I will see the object and the image because they're both in front of me. Also because there's a picture in the book (candle pic...
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    Shouldn't the electromagnetic fields in waves be 90 degrees out of phase?

    Hi Stephan Hoyer. I searched more on what you explained on the internet. Just curious, did you learn that stuff in a general physics course like Electricity and Magnetism? Up to this point in my study (not much, just to electromagnetic waves now), I did not see any mention of space time...
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    Shouldn't the electromagnetic fields in waves be 90 degrees out of phase?

    Hi rbj. Thanks for answering my question. Frankly, I don't really understand it. But it seems like I am not the only one. I searched around and found a paper written probably by some graduate student who seem convinced that electric field and magnetic field travel 90 degrees out of phase in...
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    Shouldn't the electromagnetic fields in waves be 90 degrees out of phase?

    Hi. All the books I read depict the electric fields and magnetic fields in electromagnetic waves as being in phase - meaning they reach their max or their min at the same time. The books also say that the changing electric field creates magnetic field and changing magnetic field creates...
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    Transfer of charges between 2 conductors

    Based on the capacitance formula for a parallel-plate capacitor: ( C=EoA/d ), capacitance would equal 0 as distance between the plates approaches infinity. That means the plates would not hold any charges when they are connected to a battery if the plates are really far away from each other...
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    Transfer of charges between 2 conductors

    Thanks vanesche. Actually, I did think about capacity when I wrote the questions. I know that the closer the positive and negative plates are in a capacitor, the more charges they can hold given a certain potential difference. So that means that it takes the negative charges nearby to keep...
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    Transfer of charges between 2 conductors

    Hi. If a conductor (A) touches another highly charged conductor (B) such as one on the Van De Graaff generator, then I move conductor A via a string away from conductor B. Does conductor A retain the charges that it had gained when it touched the highly charged conductor? If conductor A...
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