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"Iâve been looking into Faradayâs contribution to the understanding that light is an electromagnetic wave. That investigation led me to some early work by other researchers on the light/magnetism connection, and led me in turn to a puzzler: how significant and accurate is that earlier research? I donât have a good answer, so I will pose the questions to the physics/blog community in the post."
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âm wondering if any of you have ideas to get students to participate in sharing their conceptual difficulties with the class. Also, Iâm wondering if any of you have any ideas for relatively short, interesting questions on the subject of static electricity.
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I never knew some of these. But look, I was Fafnir all along.
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