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Vacuum amplification

Tube amplifiers use a control grid that sits in between the anode and cathode. This carries an AC signal received from the guitar. I was wondering how the control grid actually amp …
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About E-field & electric potential of a metal conductor…

A few questions about electric field here: Why do charges have to be on the outer surface of the conductor? Why no charge on the inner surface of a hollow conductor? If charges c …
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Amazing wireless energy transfer coil, how does it work?

I've found this video on the web: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIhPa...eature=related and id like to be able to build one myself. But i don't really know how to start with this …
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Is it possible to harness energy from the earths magneic field?

The other day I pondered the possibility of harnessing energy from a magnetic field. I was thinking about wind farms and wondered if a similar process could be created with a gener …
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Calculating the Electric Field Between 2 Parallel Conductors

The formula for calculating the strength of the electric field bewteen 2 flat bar conductors parallel to each other is E = -dV/dx. What does dx stand for? Is it the separation dist …
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Is the net charge density on each plate(sigmainitial - sigmainduced) the same in both plates or different?

Say i have a capacitor and i supply it with a voltage V and after that it has charge density sigmainitial on each plate. Now i remove the voltage source and then introduce a diele …
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How can i determine the capacitance of Right Angle plates?

I have two plates that form a right angle. How would I go about finding the Capacitance of the two plates?
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Does pure carbon and graphite share the same resistivity?

I know that the resistivity for pure carbon = 3.5 x 10^-3Ωm, but i cannot find any useful statistics on the resistivity for graphite.