If photons are the carriers of the electromagnetic force, why isn't electricity made of photons? From a classical point of view, electricity arises from continuous fields. Quantum mechanically, ...

If photons are the carriers of the electromagnetic force, why isn't electricity made of photons?Who says it isn't?I'm being a little facetious here, but the question "what is electricity made ...

Electricity and other electromagnetic effects happen because tiny particles called electrons move and interact with each other. At the very small, quantum level, these interactions are carried by ...

A charged plastic (spoon) will attract a magnet pole (or any object,really) which it polarizes. The glass over a sensitive electricalmeter movement is always conductive (has a layer of indiumtin ...

I think it's all the same background energy at play.According to Maxwell, "any moving electric charge creates a magnetic field around it," so perhaps just moving the spoon did the trick?I ...

Suppose the ring sits in the $xy$-plane, centered at the origin. It is not hard to show that the electric potential for points along the $z$-axis is at a local maximum; specifically, if the radius ...

The question is: How to insert energy into a quantum system you are describing. Its of course impossible to do it in a classical way in order to measure change of the weight (spectral shift by ...

By moving the charge you increase the rest energy hence the mass of the total system.The standard theory then will trll you that this energy is located in the electric field that you have increased.

I wonder where this augmented mass is reserved: inside the charged mass, inside the electric field, or inside the capacitor's plates?Generally the mass deficit cannot be attributed to a specific ...

Contrary to the commenters and answers above, this has very little to do with internal resistance. Your battery is simply about to die and is struggling to maintain the battery voltage.The decrease ...

Respectfully, this idea,I know that as charge builds up on the capacitor plates, it becomes harder and harder for current to flow: the net charges on the capacitor plates repel any more charges from ...

Gauss's Law evaluates the net flux passing through an area, and in the case of a capacitor, the flux leaving the area is equal to the flux entering the area, giving a sum of zero.First consider an ...

The capacitor doesn't change the current as it charges up, rather the charge ON the capacitor repels like charges on the incomingwires. It's the rise in potential on the capacitor terminalthat ...

However, according to Gauss's law, the electric field outside the capacitor plates is zero since both plates have fluxes of equal magnitudes and opposite directions in those regions.For capacitors ...

When you apply a voltage source (with an internal resistance) to a capacitor, a current flows leading to a charge build-up on the capacitor plates until the voltage between the capacitor plates, given ...

according to Gauss's law, the electric field outside the capacitor plates is zeroGauss's law says that for a surface surrounding zero net charge, the sum of the electric flux is zero. But unless ...