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    What's the Difference Between B, H, D and E?

    No, H and B are not simply related. They just happen to be "coincident" for most materials. You have to realize the units are totally different. In some materials the relationship between B and H can be quite complex. You have to look at H in the analogous manner than you look at D. I could...
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    What's the Difference Between B, H, D and E?

    D and H are fields that represent the changes due to the addition of material in a special way. Suppose you look at an electric field with and without a material in it. You will notice that with a material there can be a change in the electric field. How? A material generally isn't a source...
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    Kill my curiosity - Rolling a ball down a ramp, friction or no friction?

    Fiction causes loss of energy, simple as that. If you were to give a rotation to the ball on the frictionless ramp it will continue to rotate without loss of energy. You can think of fiction as if the ramp was sticky. As the ball is rolling it sticks(slightly, it doesn't stop the motion) to...
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    There must be a trick to pumping water into a reactor (I’ll explain)

    Water doesn't leave the reactor. It is generally a closed system. You heat up the water, it expands, you use a pressure gradient device(such as a value) to allow some of the hot water to escape into a chamber of lower pressure. The water then expands into a gas and cools(ideal gas law). This...
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    How can we define material properties using Maxwell's equations?

    @Drakkith: I think I mentioned this somewhere. By "property" I mean a macroscopic property. This is because I'm trying to describe them. As I said/implied color is due to QM but macroscopically it is a simple "property". On the macroscopic level one doesn't ordinarily encounter phenomena that...
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    EM Waves: Why No Electromagnetic Wave Production?

    Um, there are EM waves produced! This is a well known phenomena. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmor_formula If you calculate the power for a single electron it is extremely small. It is on the order of about 10^-50. Given the air density of about 1 it would mean we would require 10^50...
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    How can we define material properties using Maxwell's equations?

    There are certain properties of materials that are "artificial" in the sense that they have no direct physical basis but are sort of added into the evolution equations to get the right effect. I don't mean to sound like they are arbitrary but that they are more empirical and not directly...
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