Field Definition and 1000 Threads

  1. rudransh verma

    I What is the cause of electrical disturbances?

    The electromagnetic field can carry waves, some of them are light, others are used in radio broadcast. These oscillatory waves are distinguished by their frequency. The usual pickup that we get from electric currents in the circuits in the walls of the building has a frequency of about 100...
  2. E

    A Some basic questions about effective field theory (EFT)

    I had been studying this topic from various textbooks and review articles and I am confused about some terminologies and concepts. The question I have typed in this PDF. [Mentor Note -- Added screenshot of PDF contents]
  3. V

    Electric field at a point within a charged circular ring

    I have broken the ring into a top arc and a bottom arc. First, let's assume an imaginary charge of +1 C is placed at point P. We will determine the force on this unit charge from top and bottom arcs. The charges in the top arc will result in electric fields that will all cancel each other...
  4. F

    B Tangential part of the potential electric field

    Good afternoon to everybody. I have may be a stupid question according to the tangential part of the electric field near the surface of the conductor. Why is it zero? The normal part is zero on the distance of Debye cause of screening. But is this situation the same for horizontal direction...
  5. P

    I Is the Higgs field in its present form phlogiston-like?

    Phlogiston lead to the discovery of oxygen but was later on proven to be imaginary. Can the same be said of the quite strange Higgs field and Higgs mechanism following from the strange Mexican hat potential? Is that potential just imaginary? It lead to the discovery of the eponimous particle...
  6. rudransh verma

    Flux of a non-uniform E field through the face of a cube

    Phi = int of (3xi^ + 4j^).vector dA = 3 int of(xdA) Now we put x= 3 and we get at last 36 N m^2/C. I am getting confused why E is a fuction of x. How can that be? How can we represent the E and position x on the same coordinate system. Is it right ? Because we know distance is inversely...
  7. MichPod

    I Calculating Force & Acceleration in Electrostatic Field (B=0)

    For a case of electrostatic field (B is equal zero), how should the force acting on a moving charge be calculated if we want to take into account all the relativistic effects? Also would it be correct to calculate the acceleration of the charge as a=F/m, or should some other formula be used? For...
  8. snoopies622

    I What are the implications of Einstein's field equations having two free indices?

    I'm trying to understand Killing fields and I've hit a bump right away. Suppose I'm in a plane and using the Cartesian coordinate system, and I consider the swirly vector field \vec{v}=(-y,x) . It is easy to show that \nabla _{y} v^x + \nabla_{x} v^y = -1+1=0 . But if I convert this to polar...
  9. V

    Electric Field on the surface of charged conducting spherical shell

    When I look at the relevant equations, then there is no mention of field for a point on the surface of the shell, so it gets confusing. On the other hand, I feel the radial E will get stronger as we approach the surface of shell and magnitude of E will approach infinity.
  10. Einstein44

    I Calculating Magnetic field strength of a magnet

    I have been trying to calculate the magnetic flux thought a single loop of wire occurring from a magnet (meaning it has a nonuniform field), so I have the following equation: Φ=∮BdAcosθ Now my problem is that I do not know how to calculate the magnetic field strength (B)of that magnet (which...
  11. M

    I Formula For Calculating Field Angle (Beam Angle) of Light?

    There are actually several questions. The formula for calculating the "beam angle" of light (emitted from lights bulbs, flashlights etc) is - α = 2 arcCos ( 1 - Lm ÷ ( 2 π Cd )) Where, α = beam angle in degrees Lm = luminous flux (Lumens) Cd = luminous intensity (Candela) The above formula...
  12. V

    Engineering What is the magnetic field of a half toroid?

    Hello, I would like to know what is the magnetic field of a half toroid. Would we use Ampere's law? So, considering that the integral is equal to BA, we would have BA = μo * i, then B = (μo * i) / r. But, using Biot-Savart's law, by symmetry, it seems that the vector sum of all the...
  13. A

    I References for Hamiltonian field theory and Dirac Brackets

    I'm looking for complete and detailed references on constrained Hamiltonian systems and Dirac brackets. While my main interest is electrodynamics, I would prefer a complete exposition of the theory from the ground up. So far, my knowledge about the topic comes from books in QFT, like Weinberg...
  14. DaniV

    The 1-loop anomalous dimension of massless quark field

    I tried as first step to find Z_q the renormalization parameter, to do so I did the same procedure to find the renormalization parameter of the gauge field of the gluon A^a_\mu when a is representation index a \in {1,2,...,N^2-1} such that A^{a{(R)}}_{\mu}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{Z_A}}A^{a}_{\mu}...
  15. jackiepollock

    How to picture a radial field around a 3d object?

    Hello! First off, for a), I am not too sure how to picture a radial field around a 3d object. I know that this spherical metal dome is basically a enlarged version of an atom, but since with problems on radial field around an atom, I don't have to consider its diameter, I'm not sure how the...
  16. jackiepollock

    I Why are field lines parallel in a uniform field?

    For a uniform field like this, I imagine the two plates that creates it are made of multiple atoms with charges, which are points sources that create radial fields. We know that radial fields don't have parallel fields lines, so how are parallel fields lines form when the field is made of...
  17. N

    B Why do moving charged particles feel a force in a magnetic field?

    When I read things about magnetism on internet, I don't understand at all about one thing: If a moving particle receive a force if it's in a magnetic field, so it should accelerate, so what happen if we change the referential so that the particle now don't move? The particle shouldn't receive...
  18. J

    A Connection between QFT renormalization and field regularization?

    While in QFT we remove infinite energy problem with renormalization procedure, asking e.g. "what is mean energy density in given distance from charged particle", electric filed alone would say $$\rho \propto |E|^2 \propto 1/r^4 $$ But such energy density would integrate to infinity due to...
  19. V

    Magnitude of electric field E on a concentric spherical shell

    The only explanation that I have seen in textbooks is that since the outer spherical shell is symmetrical relative to internal charged spherical shell so field every where on the outer shell is same in magnitude at every point on it. I can understand that electric field needs to be...
  20. Shreya

    Force on a dipole in a non uniform electric field

    I have figured out how the force is towards left in the first case. I think it is due to the larger force on - charge. Please help me out with the second and third case.
  21. Shreya

    Flux density and Divergence of Electric field

    I think Flux density is flux/Volume. Or is it flux/ Area Please be kind to help
  22. jjson775

    Electron motion after collision in a magnetic field

    Isn‘t this a straightforward problem of conservation of momentum? See attached.
  23. K

    B Rock Found in Field Turns Out to Be 4.6GY Old Meteorite

    A small fragment of rock found lying in a field in Gloucestershire in the UK may not have looked like much to the casual passerby ... I'm curious how this was found, if not by a "casual passerby". Did there happen to be a meteorite expert wandering in the Gloucestershire field?
  24. S

    I Does a field affect the originating entity?

    Eg a gravitational field exists around a mass (A), and no doubt influences any other local mass (B) - but.. - does that field also exert an influence on the original mass (A) ? ie a sort of radial force outwards ?
  25. Leo Liu

    Vector space and 3D flow field

    Could someone explain the green highlight to me, please?
  26. Paige_Turner

    B The Impact of Tidal Force on a Star's Magnetic Field and Supernova

    And if a star is severely stretched by tidal force, how does that affect its magnetic field and the process of it collapsing at the start of a supernova?
  27. P

    Magnetic field - General current in a cube

    I could solve a similar (rather, a specific case of the above) where the current entered through a corner and left from the corner opposite to it along the body diagonal of the cube. For this specific case, I was able to easily exploit symmetry to deduce the answer (0). However, I cannot think...
  28. merlyn

    B Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution under the influence of a gravitational field

    Could anyone suggest a simple video showing the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution under the influence of a gravitational field? I trying to show a flat earther idiot how pressure gradients arise in a simple manner. Thank you all. DF
  29. D

    B Entangled protons in a uniform magnetic field?

    In NMR, protons that are near each other exchange energy with each other by photon emission and absorption. Proton A is spin down, and proton B is spin up. proton A emits a photon and becomes spin up, and proton B absorbs this photon and becomes spin down. have the two protons been entangled?
  30. B

    Show that the given electric field is a plane wave

    A wavefront is defined as a surface in space where the argument of the cosine has a constant value. So I set the argument of the cosine to an arbitrary constant s. ## k(\hat{u} \cdot r - c t) + \phi = s ## The positional information is is in r, so I rearrange the equation to be ## \hat{u}...
  31. sergiokapone

    I Can Electromagnetic Fields Exist Independently of Charges?

    Interesting thing, the undergraduate courses of electromagnetism states the electromagnetic field caused by electric charge: d∗F=4π/c∗J, and students, in my opinion, mistakenly imagine the electromagnetic field as a product of charged particle. In my opinion, it is more correct to say that...
  32. VictorMedvil

    A What Superconductor Can Have The Highest Magnetic Field Strength?

    Hello, I asked a question about superconductors in 2020 and I was now wondering what superconducting chemical/material can have the highest magnetic field strength before the superconductivity is destroyed by it? Secondly, What the is maximum magnetic field strength of said material in Tesla per...
  33. H

    B Distribution of energy in the electric field surrounding an electron

    I am thinking about how an electric field has energy associated with it. If a single electron exists alone in a remote vaccuum, I believe it has it's own electric field surrounding it, and that this field has an energy content associated with it. My question is; does this electric field store...
  34. C

    I Electromagnetic Field & Space-Time: Relationship Explained

    What is the relationship between the electromagnetic field and space-time? I am basically assuming that space-time is one big gravitational field. Is there a relationship between space-time and the field (I presume) created by the strong force (however negligible it may be at any significant...
  35. Leo Liu

    Vector field of gradient vector and contour plot

    Given the equation ##\frac{xy} 3##. It is a fact that the gradient vector function is always perpendicular to the contour graph of the origional function. However it is not so evident in the plot above. Any thought will be appreciated.
  36. Paulpaulpa

    Spacetime translations and general Lagrangian density for Field Theory

    In Sydney Coleman Lectures on Quantum field Theory (p48), he finds : $$D\mathcal{L} = e^{\mu} \partial _{\mu} \mathcal{L}$$ My calulation, with ##\phi## my field and the variation of the field under space time tranlation ##D\phi = e^{\mu} \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial x^{\mu}}## ...
  37. LCSphysicist

    Magnetic field of a permanently magnetized cylinder

    I need to find the magnetic field of a permanently magnetized cylidner: In calculating the magnetic field, i find that it should be $M_{0} \mu / 2$ and $H = M_{0} / 2$ inside. I just want to make sure that i understand the concepts in this type of problems. Since $M = H \chi (1)$, does this...
  38. F

    Magnetic field generated by a current in a wire - special relativity

    First I wrote in ##S'##, by using Gauss theorem $$ \int_{\Sigma} \underline E' \cdot \hat n d\Sigma = \frac Q {\varepsilon_0} \rightarrow E'(r)2\pi rH=\frac{\lambda'H}{\varepsilon_0} $$ $$ \underline E'(\underline r)=\frac{\lambda'}{2\pi\varepsilon_0r}\hat r $$ Its components are...
  39. B

    Gravitational Potential In the Field Caused by Two Masses

    I got (a) but have no idea about b. Potential fields aren't just additive all the time are they?
  40. LCSphysicist

    I'm not understanding how to calculate the magnetic field of a sphere

    I need to calculate the magnetic field generated by a static sphere at its center. On the surface of the sphere flows a constant current ##K \hat \phi##. Now, my guess was that the field produced would be equal to the field produced by a lot of rings, that is, i will split the sphere in a lot...
  41. alyssmainwrg

    Why does a magnet do work on a flying nail?

    When a charged particle moves in a magnetic field, the magnetic field will not work. But when a nail flying over a permanent magnet is attracted by the magnet, the magnet does work on the nail. Can anybody explain why this is so?
  42. J

    B Electron charge and spin creating a magnetic field?

    From what I understand, electrons are negatively charged, however, I have recently come to learn that electrons also have a spin which creates a magnetic field around each electron. I don't understand how the electron can be a negative monopole, yet have a completely independent magnetic field...
  43. PhysicsTest

    Production of the magnetic field from 3-phase currents

    This is not a homework problem, I want to calculate the equation of the magnetic field intensity from the 3 phase currents separated by 120Degrees. The 3 currents are ##I_{{aa}^{'}} = I_M\sin \omega t ; -> eq1 \ I_{{bb}^{'}} = I_M\sin(\omega t - 120); -> eq2\ I_{{cc}^{'}} = I_M\sin(\omega t...
  44. uni98

    Electric field of wire and cylinder at one point in space

    I can calculate the fields generated by the cylinder and the wire but I don't know how to calculate their vector sum to evaluate it at point A. Cylinder field inside: ρR^2/2rε Cylinder field outside: ρr/2ε Field generated by the wire: λ/2πr I should break the fields into components but I don't...
  45. S

    Finding the potential function of a vector field

    Hello! So I need to find the potential function of this Vector field $$ \begin{matrix} 2xy -yz\\ x^2-xz\\ 2z-xy \end{matrix} $$ Now first I tried to check if rotation is not ,since that is mandatory for the potentialfunction to exist.For that I used the jacobi matrix,and it was not...
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