I was looking at search terms that lead people to this website from Google and stumbled across this one: “the work done by the magnetic field on the charged particle during the semicircular trip.” Someone obviously was interested in how much work a magnetic field could “do”, and Google was kind enough to point them [...]
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Tags: cross-product, electromagnetism, magnetic field, misconceptions, right-hand rule, work
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Carlwin has the following question about energy:
I dont know if our solution is right, but here’s the problem: Compute for the energy given off by a gas doing 200 J of work and losing 1350 J of its internal energy to the environment
Normally, I don’t respond to these types of questions for two reasons: (1) [...]
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Tags: energy, heat, work
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