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Why isn't the magnetic field defined by the magnetic force on a particle moving through it?
A magnetic field describes the influence a charge (in motion) experiences. In other words, it is essentially a vector field that describes the force that a particle will feel at a given location. ...
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Why can a force field only be conservative if it is spherically symmetric?
I saw in my textbook that a field can only be conservative if it happens to be spherically symmetric. Why is this so? Is there a good proof for this?
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Is there any special significance of force field in physics?
What is the formal definition of force field? Which is more fundamental force or field? Do field exist in nature (as force do i think as per section 12-1 of Feynman lecture volume 1, and page 8,9 of ...
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Difference between a vector field and a force field
In mathematics while learning about vector fields, we define a "vector field" as "a function of space whose value at each point is a vector quantity". That is, at each point in space there is a vector ...
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What exactly is conservative vector field?
I'm studying calculus, but since the example involved a physical concept. I will ask here:
This is how it goes:
This means that in a conservative force field, the amount of work
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Line integral definition of work clarification
So I am kind of confused about the role of force when calculating work. Specifically, when defining work using a line integral. There is a paragraph in my calculus book that is really throwing me off ...
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