How to Use electromagnetism in a Sentence
electromagnetism
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Gravity pins us to Earth and pulls us around the sun, while electromagnetism keeps the lights on.
— Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020 -
To describe electromagnetism, a gauge group known as U(1) was introduced, and this is still used at the present.
— Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021 -
Induction stoves use electromagnetism to heat up pots and pans (and have glass tops).
— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2023 -
Most of them boil down to adding a new force to nature’s repertoire of gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces.
— Tom Siegfried, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2020 -
It was left to Michael Faraday, in the first half of the 19th century, to define the modern understanding of electromagnetism.
— Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 21 June 2018 -
If electromagnetism were only a little stronger, then even in the hearts of stars nuclei would not be banged together hard enough to bring forth carbon.
— The Economist, 13 July 2017 -
His work in showing how electromagnetism and the weak force could be jointly viewed as the electroweak force was made known to the world in a paper published in 1967 in the Physical Review Letters.
— Washington Post, 26 July 2021 -
Bosons include photons, the particles of light and the force carriers of electromagnetism, and gluons, the particles that convey the strong force.
— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019 -
Mostly impervious to normal forces like electromagnetism, these particles drift through the world, and through us, like ghosts through a wall.
— Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020 -
Here are the groundbreaking contributions physicists made to the field of electromagnetism.
— Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023 -
These were the relatively familiar forces of electromagnetism and gravity as well as two forces that act on subatomic particles, the strong force and the weak force.
— Washington Post, 26 July 2021 -
If dense, massive atomic nuclei were orbited by electrons — and if that was the structure of the atom — then the laws of electromagnetism presented an enormous problem.
— Big Think, 21 June 2024 -
Phillips, for example, suspects that strange metals call for an emergent form of electromagnetism that doesn’t rely on whole electrons.
— Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Phillips, for example, suspects that strange metals call for an emergent form of electromagnetism that doesn’t rely on whole electrons.
— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023 -
The components of electromagnetism are thus quantum in origin.
— Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022 -
Gravity and electromagnetism, if the graviton or photon are massive, will no longer be infinite-range forces.
— Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021 -
These use electromagnetism to directly heat up a pan, rather than getting an element hot through electrical resistance and then heating up the pan that way.
— Ryan Cooper, The Week, 14 Sep. 2021 -
First came gravity, then strong nuclear, and lastly electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force split from each other.
— Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022 -
At high enough energies, the fundamental forces — gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces — seem to become equal.
— Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Alas, that same electric charge makes positrons susceptible to tiny electric fields—and electromagnetism eclipses gravity’s force.
— Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023 -
Of course, there applications of electromagnetism in everyday life are vast.
— Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2019 -
Whereas electromagnetism has only two charges—positive or negative—QCD has three—red, green or blue.
— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023 -
The next year Kenneth Wilson identified strings — Wilson lines — in the setting of classical electromagnetism.
— Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Faraday was the first to propose a unification of gravity and electromagnetism.
— Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021 -
But as the universe expanded and cooled, this superforce condensed into its familiar parts: gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak forces.
— Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2020 -
These constraints on the photon’s interactions lead to Maxwell’s equations, the 154-year-old theory of electromagnetism.
— Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019 -
Gauge theory had been developed in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell, a British physicist, in his seminal work to explain electromagnetism.
— BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021 -
Familiar constituents of matter like electrons and quarks fall into the group known as fermions; while those that carry fundamental forces like photons, the particles of light that convey the force of electromagnetism, are known as bosons.
— Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023 -
That discrepancy could have signaled that massive new particles lurking in the vacuum alter the mass of the W, which conveys the weak nuclear force just as the photon conveys electromagnetism’s force.
— Byscience News Staff, science.org, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Theorists in the 1970s posited a relationship between the particles that carry forces, like the photon that conveys electromagnetism or light, and the basic constituents of matter, electrons and quarks.
— Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 June 2017
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