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Inductance - a better analogy than the fact that it is similar to inertia
This question is to get a feel and good definition for what inductance actually is.
I have read about the analogy where inductance can be compared to inertia-that the flux through an inductor resists ...
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Electromagnetic Waves and Inertia
I have a conceptual question. Suppose we have two bodies of equal masses. One is electrically neutral and the other is electrically charged (positivley charged). Now we apply equal magnitude of force ...
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Has anyone directly observed the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass for the electromagnetic force?
Before someone tells me to drop a bowling ball and feather off the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a vacuum, let me point out that, in general relativity, you can't deduce anything about either mass of a ...
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Electromagnetic inertial reaction force?
I accelerate charged particle $A$ causing virtual photons to travel to distant charged particle $B$ which feels an electromagnetic force proportional to $A$'s acceleration (for a classical field ...
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An expanding, sliding charged tube's self-imposed electromagnetic induction
If I have a simple cylindrical electrically-insulating tube possessing a net electrostatic charge and allow the tube to slide parallel to the tube's axis, that tube will possess electric currents ...
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Faraday's Law and the Law of Inertia
Faraday's Law can be stated qualitatively as : Any loop (of wire) opposes/resists the change of magnetic flux through it.
The Law of Inertia states that any physical object resists its change in ...
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Do electromagnetic fields have inertia? Or, what sets the speed of light?
In all mechanical waves, there is a restoring force and an inertial influence. For example, a plucked string oscillates because the restoring force brings it back to being straight and then the string'...
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Gravity vs Electricity see-saw analogy and speed of light
Does electricity exhibit anything like the following steps:
1) A ball is rolled down from left side of a very long teeter-totter or see-saw
2) The see-saw rapidly (immediately) tilts once the ball ...
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What happens when a electrically charged object is moving away from a charge it is attracted to(read description) [closed]
When a electrically charged object that carries momentum and inertia is attracted to a electrical field and is moving away from it, does it lose momentum as it is pulled towards it, or does it circle ...
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The Inertial theory of Sciama and an electromagnetic analogue
In 1952 D. W. Sciama introduced a paper On the origin of inertia. It presents a method in which inertia could arise from other mass in the universe. It goes along these lines:
If you try to ...
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An apparent contradiction to $m = m_0/\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}$ [duplicate]
Using theoretical framework of the special relativity, we can show that the quantity that we classically regard as energy does have a property of inertia. And particularly, if the total energy of a ...
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What does it signify that electrostatic mass cannot exist without inertial mass?
From Coulomb's law and Newton's second law we can state that if there is electrostatic mass (charge) at any point of space then there has to exist inertial mass also at that point of space. Otherwise, ...
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Electromagnetic factors affecting inertial mass of a body affect its gravitational mass or not?
We can see that when a charge sphere is at rest & we are to put it in motion with any desired velocity than we will have to apply the same force for a longer time as if it were applied to the ...
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Can inertia be explained by Bremsstrahlung?
Considering that on the atomic level objects consists of densely spaced positively and negatively charged particles, does not the acceleration of those objects lead to Bremsstrahlung of those ...
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