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Electricity and Magnets: Electromagnetism
Magnetic Forces on Conductors
Origin of Magnetism
Currents in Demagnetization
Induction and Eddy Currents
Microwave Magnets
Inductance of Counter-wound Coil
Are Electromagnetic Waves Sinusoidal?
Light and Force
Which Particle is Mediated in Electrostatic Force?
Rotating Charges
There Is Only One Type of Magnetic Field
Momentum Conservation With Electromagnetism
Practical Cyclotron Problems
Earth's Gravity and Magnetism
Field Strength and Field Lines
Light Losing Energy
Lorentz-contracted Current
How far do Magnets Interact?
Car Trigger Wheels
Microwaves and dry Ice
Energy Conservation in Magnets
What Produces a Magnetic Field?
Blocking 2.4 -- 5 GHhz Radiation
Electromagnetic Induction and Current
Why Does the Power Remain Constant in a Transformer?
How do Electrons Lose Energy?
No Aluminum Core Transformers
Can Light Induce a Voltage in a Coil?
Is Current a Scaler or Vector Quantity?
Loss of Field After Turning off Magnet Current
Magnetic Flow Meters: how do They Work?
Joule Thieves
Voltage on Mercury Flowing in Magnet
Charged Particle Through Torus
Why do we Call Positive Charge Positive and Negative Change Negative?
Particle and Antiparticle Magnetic Fields
Spinning Water With a Magnet and Current
Can you Make an Electro-magnet With Mercury?
Heating From Magnetic Eddy Currents
Fields From Charge and Current Distributions
Conservation of Momentum and Electromagnetism
Light Through Magnetic Nano-torus
Intuition and Magnetic Fields
Magnetic and Electric Lines of Force
Fun With Delicate Magnets
Can you Push Light With a Magnetic or Electric Field?
Can Electromagnetic Waves Have Magnetic Monopoles?
Relative Motion and Electromagnetism
How to Increase Eddy Current Braking
Spinning a Magnet About its Axis
Why do Electrical Signals Travel Fast?
Can we Calculate Radioactive Decays?
Eddy Current Braking
Why Doesn't DC Work With a Transformer?
Energy Nodes in Propagating Wave
Magnetically Induced Currents in Copper Pipe
Generation and Harmful Effects of Tera-Hertz Waves
Are There Shockwaves of Light Like Sonic Booms?
Force of Light
What Sets the Electron Charge?
Spins in a Stern-Gerlach Experiment
Why is Coulomb's law Inverse Square?
Magnets and Work on Current Loops
Low Self-inductance
Induction Stove Tops
What Materials Feel the Casimir Effect?
Coulomb's law and Gauss' Law
Mu-metal Transformer Core
Magnets Under Microwaves
Why is the Magnetic Force Perpendicular to the Motion
Quantized E-M
Electromagnetic Reflection
Velocity of Light in Media
Electromagnet did not Work
Are Photons Charged?
Magnetism and Relativity
Gravity From Extreme Magnetism
Electromagnetic Energy Loss
Why Isn't my Electromagnet Working?
Magnets and Eddy Currents
Why do Moving Charges Produce Magnetic Fields?
Flowing Saltwater in Magnets
Does Magnetism Travel Through all Materials?
Energy Flow in a dc Circuit
Relativistic Transformations of Electric and Magnetic Fields
Electromagnetic Motors and Free Energy
Does a Photon Have Momentum?
Why Inverse Square Distance in Coulomb Law?
Trying to Shield Iron From the TSA?
Ed Leedskalnin and Magnets?
Electron Radiation From Bohr Atom
Lorentz Contraction and Current
Radio Waves Move Plasma
Induction Heating
Ac Magnet Poles
Cell Phone Photons
Magnetic Action at a Distance
Mercury Motor
Eddy-current Motor
Boiling oil in a Microwave?
Radio-frequency Photons
DC Input to a Transformer?
Generating Electricity With a Magnet
Why is Light Transverse?
Mass and Speed
Magnetic Charge and Maxwell's Equations
Momentum Kick From Flashlight
Momentum of Light and Weirdness
Harm From Blue-tooth?
Can Magnets do Work?
Light Carrying Particles
Lenz's Law: Magnets Slowed by Eddy Current
Discover Magazine Covers Magnetism in Baloney
Electromagnetism Without Constraints
What is a Theory of Gravity and Magnetism?
Thermal Radiation Isolation?
Faster Than Speed of Light?
Does the Photon Have a Structure?
Light Transmission Through Three Polarizers
Electron Spin Resonance
Earth's Magnetic Field
Why String Theory?
Electric and Magnetic Transforms
Inductance Losses
Magnetically Induced Electric Current
Energy From Earth's Field
Gauss' Law
Maxwell and C.
Field of a Single Particle?
Waves and Fields
Magnetism and Relativity
Solenoid Field
Magnetic Motions
Sources of Electric Field
Solenoid Ends
Magnetism and Relativity
Conductors and Magnets
Unbalanced Electromagnetic Forces?
EMF, Potential Difference, Terminal Potential?
Fleming''s Rule
Gaussian Surface
Relativistic Induction
Picking Wire Gauge
Why Fundamental Constant Values?
More on Magnetic Forces
Different Forms of Magnetic Force
Helical Paths in a Magnetic Field.
Magnetic Monopoles
Casimir Tricks?
How not to Make an LED
Simple Generator
Steering Electrons in a Cathode ray Tube.
Magnetic Generators
Magnet Drive?
Magnetic Field Calculation
Electromagnetic Induction and Cooking
Finding out Which is the North Pole of an Electromagnet
Electromagnet
How Electrical Circuits Work
Maxwells Laws
Electromagnetism
Fun With Electromagnetism
Powering-Up Home-Made Electromagnets
Controlling the Poles of a Magnet
Electromagnetic Induction and Windmills
Alternating Current and Magnets
Linear Accelerator
Twisted Wires
Electromagnets
Making a Magnetic Field
Variable Electromagnet
Photons as Carriers of the Electromagnetic Force
Number of Batteries and Electromagnet Strength
A big Magnet and the City of the Future
Static and Moving Electricity
Wireless Electricity?
Magnetic Field Strength at the end of a Solenoid
Why There are no dc Transformers
Field Direction Inside a Solenoid
Magnetic Field in Solenoid
Magnetism and Relativity
Stronger Electromagnets With More Turns
Electromagnet
Transformers
Electromagnetic Energy and Cell Phones
Cell Phone Interference
Magnetic Energy Storage
Plasma Ball Radio Interference
Coiling a Magnet
Field Multiplications
Crazy as a Turntable
Wavey Vision?
Home-made Magnet
Superconducting Transformers
How do you Make a Magnet
Induction
Electromagnetics
Electromagnets at Home
Faraday's law of Induction
Electromagnetic Waves
Why Constant Speed of Light
Vector Operations
Debugging an Electromagnet That Doesnt Work
Light and Sound in Space
Hot Electromagnets
Cordless Power
Magnets and Currents
Perpetual Motion
Electromagnetic Forces on Charged Particles
Light and Dark
Standing Waves in Cylindrical Cavities.
Green Stars?
Magnetic Field of a Solenoid
Cathode Rays are Different Than Light
Cathode ray Discovery