(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best electromagnetism books

Not metal or conductive ones. It doesn't matter if they're rounded, for substantial purposes; what matters are standing waves damaging the microwave parts at the other end.

"Free" electrons on the surface of the metal completely follow any incoming electric field (within a = F/m) (see Quora), so the energy is still there and will begin to be absorbed by something. Putting a dielectric--an absorbing material in this case--over the metal surface will slow the phase of the outgoing wave and also absorb energy, preventing the formation of these bathtub-like standing waves. This is what we learned and were taught in electrodynamics.

Arcing is a little bit separate and happens because charges like to get away from the each other. A small radius of curvature (aka sharp) means locally fewer free electrons will be gathered (since the positive charges in the nucleus don't move, generally), and thus a a net-positive "landing spot" is created.

You can cause an arc in two seconds, I know I have done it with a spoon handle that I forgot, sticking out. However, I believe the damage from arcing would be different and two-fold: (1) locally on spot where it begins and ends, by pitting (e.g. on the spoon and roof), and (2) RF energy damage to sensitive electronics reachable by the waves and not protected by an RF/conductive shield.

Can someone point me to a movie of http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetoelastic-Interactions-Springer-Natural-Philosophy/dp/3642873987 ? I can't find it in IMDB. Thanks.

For Robert Betts Laughlin: How has his thinking changed since the publication of A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down

edit: If interested, read short paper online from Laughlin & Pines: The Theory of Everything from 1999

The Feynman Lectures may or may not be what you want to go through (they're better for reference than for learning), but If $20 for Volume 1, $8 for Volume 2, and $10 for Volume 3 is too expensive for you, you may not be sufficiently committed.

Your program will have specific textbooks and materials for you to follow, so I would recommend that you check with your local library and online resources before committing to purchase any of the following:

• Bontrager's Radiographic Positioning and Techniques. This is also available in full textbook format.
  
  
  
• Mosby's Radiographic Pathology.
  
  
  
• The Fundamentals of Imaging Physics and Radiobiology.
  
  You may also try some online resources such as the radiography wiki.
  

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This is what I would want in jail, if it weren't so damn expensive... but that's how it goes with physics books.

http://www.amazon.com/1000-Solved-Problems-Modern-Physics/dp/3642043321

Elements of Modern X-ray Physics, by J. Als-Nielsen

Solid state chemistry and its applications, by A.R. West

Macdonald's Impedance Spectroscopy

like this

Schaum's Outline

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This pup right here

For a bit more detail, check out:

Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by George Gamow

The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory by Max Planck

I am actually struggling with this same question. I just started studying electromagnetic theory, and Feynman's entire book on this subject doesn't even mention photons!

As far as I can tell, there are different theories of light, there's Maxwell's field theory and there's the quantum theory which includes photons. As for which one light "really" is, it sounds like that's more in the realm of philosophy, and physicists just use the theory that works for a given situation.

Sometimes professors want to try out a newer book, or use a different system of units, or place emphasis on different topics. It could also be a price thing (I certainly would rather write my own notes than make all my students pay $150 for some specialized textbook).

My graduate E&M was out of Garg because the professor wanted a book that used Gaussian units and went in a specific order. The fact that the book was an awful reference for someone trying to learn the topic was entirely ignored by the professor.

But I've also had professors that went out of their way to find good books to learn from even if it meant more work for them in tailoring the class to a topic order they didn't like.

Yes, but it's a mess.

You have to write a formal lab report every week, and include screenshots of every measurement. Also, for every measurement and calculation you have to do an error propagation.

It's literally pages and pages of (scaled down) screenshots and calculations.It's extremely tedious and time-consuming.

They should have used a platform such as RealTime Physics with informal laboratory reports where you just "fill in the blank" inside of the report. That's what you would be doing at community college.

http://www.amazon.com/RealTime-Learning-Laboratories-Electricity-Magnetism-ebook/dp/B008KVCC2U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1397239826&sr=8-2&keywords=realtime+physics

There is no such thing as Einstinean 4D space. The thing is completely insane. Einstein is/was mainly pushed by the (((media))).

https://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Reexamined-Leon-Brillouin/dp/0124337783

https://www.amazon.com/Causality-Electromagnetic-Induction-Gravitation-Gravitational/dp/0917406230/

Matter/space are both polarities of one thing. They are inextricable not time which is just a measurement. You can't have space without matter. Time is simply the measurement of movement. Objects are born, reach, maturity and then die in a cycle. That is what time measures.

Read Walter Russell. Real science which is based on the never ending movement between the two polarities underlying existence. Masculine/feminine, contraction/expansion, yin/yang, centripetal/centrifugal. Order collapses into decay and is reborn.