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Thank you all for the replies. I was imagining the little arrows on the EM wave adding up with the static magnetic field like vector addition, changing the direction of the magnetic component of the wave

I was thinking of a magnetostatic field.

(Re: vector addition) Does the magnetic field in the EM radiation combine at all with an external electromagnetic field or does it change its polarization?

What about vector addition?

Why isn't EM radiation attracted/repelled by a magnetic field?

Okay, thanks for clearing that up.

Hi. I saw a 2D graph of two triangles, or maybe cones, one standing straight up, the other one "resting" on top of the other one but upside down with the two pointy ends touching others. The horizontal axis was labeled "space," the vertical axis was labeled "time." I'm sorry for my ignorance of...

I found one ages ago about the hyperbolic functions, but it hadn’t been translated to English from German yet. Anyone know of a good book on hyperbolic functions and other transcendental functions besides the circular functions (trigonometric)?

You mean like it doesn't mean a point particle moving at high speeds around the nucleus?

Can we all agree that electrons still move at absolute zero?

I think Atomic physics gets into specific examples and experiments but I think I’m probably wrong. So, I have to ask, what is atomic physics and how is it different than quantum physics?

I don’t think observation as defined by Mayhem is the same thing as being conscious of it. I believe in the unpopular wave-only interpretation anyway. :)

Thank you for the advice!

Yeah, I'm self-studying. I was taking calculus 3 and ordinary differential equations in school and had to quit in the middle because of a job offer. I hope to learn and solve problems in quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.

Is Advanced Linear and Matrix Algebra by Nathaniel Johnston a good book on linear algebra? Will it teach me all I need to know? Is there any calculus in it despite the name? I never took a course on linear algebra so I'm looking for something that teaches everything and includes calculus with...