Electrical engineering is the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. In simple terms, it is about understanding how electricity works in order to use the knowledge ...

What is Electromagnetic Radiation? When you sit in front of a computer or television, you are being bombarded by harmful waves quietly emanating from it. Even if you turn off the device, your ...

You have a wire that is carring an AC current through a magnetic field caused by two magnets. The current flowing in the wire is in the X direction and the magnetic field is in the Y direction. In ...

More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" (1865). What would our lives be without this ...

One of the joys of an itinerant existence comes in periodically being reunited with the fruits of various orders that were sent to hackerspaces or friends somewhere along the way. These anonymous ...

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case. How many fundamental forces are there in our universe? For particle physicists, answering ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Depending on how you look at it, each force has a scale and a ...