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[SOLVED] What is the mechanism behind the slowdown of light/photons in a transparent medium?
- 2010-11-10 00:52:20
- Henry
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- Tags: electromagnetism speed-of-light visible-light photons refraction
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[SOLVED] How do moving charges produce magnetic fields?
- 2013-05-21 10:00:06
- claws
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- Tags: electromagnetism special-relativity
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[SOLVED] How can magnets be used to pick up pieces of metal when the force from a magnetic field does no work?
- 2013-06-12 14:26:52
- sTr8_Struggin
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- Tags: electromagnetism everyday-life magnetic-fields work
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[SOLVED] Why do electrons occupy the space around nuclei, and not collide with them?
- 2011-05-03 16:32:10
- voithos
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics electromagnetism electrons atomic-physics
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[SOLVED] How can I stand on the ground? EM or/and Pauli?
- 2010-11-18 18:24:03
- Kivanc Uyanik
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- Tags: newtonian-mechanics electromagnetism forces newtonian-gravity pauli-exclusion-principle
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[SOLVED] Why are so many forces explainable using inverse squares when space is three dimensional?
- 2012-12-17 17:23:57
- Ryan Ward
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- Tags: electromagnetism newtonian-gravity gauss-law spacetime-dimensions coulombs-law
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[SOLVED] How and why do accelerating charges radiate electromagnetic radiation?
- 2013-05-21 10:11:28
- claws
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- Tags: electromagnetism electromagnetic-radiation acceleration charge
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[SOLVED] Derivation of Maxwell's equations from field tensor lagrangian
- 2011-01-16 08:18:19
- amc
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- Tags: electromagnetism lagrangian-formalism variational-principle maxwell-equations action
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[SOLVED] Phase shift of 180 degrees of transversal wave on reflection from denser medium
- 2012-05-09 23:13:37
- WhizKid
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- Tags: electromagnetism electromagnetic-radiation waves reflection boundary-conditions
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[SOLVED] Can Maxwell's equations be derived from Coulomb's Law and Special Relativity?
- 2011-01-22 17:33:04
- user1247
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- Tags: electromagnetism special-relativity maxwell-equations magnetic-monopoles coulombs-law
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[SOLVED] Apparent Violation of Newton's $3^{\text{rd}}$ Law and the Conservation of Momentum (and Angular Momentum) For a Pair of Charged Particles
- 2014-05-26 18:31:10
- Dvij Mankad
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- Tags: electromagnetism newtonian-mechanics angular-momentum conservation-laws torque
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[SOLVED] The exchange of photons gives rise to the electromagnetic force
- 2010-12-24 19:27:46
- skywaddler
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- Tags: electromagnetism photons quantum-electrodynamics virtual-particles pions
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[SOLVED] Why does the density of electric field lines make sense, if there is a field line through every point?
- 2013-10-28 13:23:03
- odg
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- Tags: electromagnetism electrostatics electric-fields gauss-law vector-fields
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[SOLVED] Does a constantly accelerating charged particle emit EM radiation or not?
- 2013-07-12 19:59:21
- John Eastmond
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- Tags: electromagnetism electromagnetic-radiation acceleration charge
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[SOLVED] How do electrons know which path to take in a circuit?
- 2012-08-07 12:16:16
- Swapnanil Saha
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- Tags: electromagnetism electrons electric-current causality
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[SOLVED] Can the intensity distribution behind edges and slits be explaint by the interaction with the surface electrons of the edges?
- 2015-01-07 13:25:11
- HolgerFiedler
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- Tags: electromagnetism photons double-slit-experiment diffraction
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[SOLVED] Do Maxwell's Equations overdetermine the electric and magnetic fields?
- 2012-01-27 08:53:37
- Warrick
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- Tags: electromagnetism classical-electrodynamics maxwell-equations differential-equations degrees-of-freedom
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[SOLVED] What equation describes the wavefunction of a single photon?
- 2010-11-09 20:38:46
- nibot
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory electromagnetism photons
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[SOLVED] Noether's first theorem and classical proof of electric charge conservation
- 2013-01-04 00:31:26
- user8817
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- Tags: electromagnetism conservation-laws charge noethers-theorem classical-electrodynamics
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[SOLVED] How is Gauss' Law (integral form) arrived at from Coulomb's Law, and how is the differential form arrived at from that?
- 2012-09-26 17:36:01
- Meow
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- Tags: electromagnetism electrostatics gauss-law coulombs-law dirac-delta-distributions
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[SOLVED] Is it theoretically possible to shield gravitational fields or waves?
- 2011-01-13 09:48:26
- netvope
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- Tags: electromagnetism general-relativity gravity gravitational-waves
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[SOLVED] Noticing that Newtonian gravity and electrostatics are equivalent, is there also a relationship between the general relativity and electrodynamics?
- 2010-11-16 17:59:34
- Justin L.
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- Tags: general-relativity gravity electromagnetism
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[SOLVED] Why do physicists believe that there exist magnetic monopoles?
- 2011-02-08 01:05:56
- haroba
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- Tags: electromagnetism maxwell-equations magnetic-monopoles
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[SOLVED] How are forces "mediated"?
- 2010-11-04 06:04:58
- Justin L.
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- Tags: electromagnetism photons carrier-particles
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[SOLVED] What does the complex electric field show?
- 2013-10-08 09:52:12
- kim
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- Tags: electromagnetism electric-fields complex-numbers
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[SOLVED] Can magnets rotate infinitely?
- 2010-12-22 21:30:56
- SMUsamaShah
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- Tags: electromagnetism perpetual-motion
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[SOLVED] Negative Mass and gravitation
- 2012-08-13 21:29:19
- SN77
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- Tags: electromagnetism electrostatics mass newtonian-gravity charge
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[SOLVED] How do mirrors work?
- 2012-07-20 21:17:41
- jcora
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- Tags: electromagnetism electromagnetic-radiation waves reflection
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[SOLVED] In electrostatics, why the electric field inside a conductor is zero?
- 2012-03-24 19:49:41
- Revo
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- Tags: electromagnetism electrostatics electric-fields metals
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[SOLVED] Recommended books for advanced undergraduate electrodynamics
- 2014-10-21 15:57:50
- A.khalaf
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- Tags: electromagnetism resource-recommendations classical-electrodynamics