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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2020
Forest Learn is a channel run by Dr Suva De, a cancer bioelectricity researcher with a PhD in quantum physics. You'll find videos on general physics (and videos tailored to A-level physics), and in due course, videos on biology, biophysics, cancer, AI and so on. The division of science into subjects is somewhat illusory - there are no such divisions in nature. This channel aims to convey the excitement that comes when the intersection of different fields allows us to 'see the forest for the trees'.
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What a photon TRULY is: a gentle intro to its quantum nature
What is a photon? A particle? Some wave-particle object? This gentle intro demystifies photons and explains their quantum nature. We explain the basics of: classical electromagnetism and its connection with light; quantum observables and states; photon states and coherent states (of lasers); the electromagnetic (EM) vacuum, zero-point energy and Casimir effect; surprising and profound implications of the EM vacuum!
0:00 - Intro
2:40 - The classical EM field
5:20 - The quantised EM field
9:14 - Elementary excitations of the quantised EM field
14:02 - A photon is NOT a particle
20:23 - The big picture
www.youtube.com/@ForestLearn?sub_confirmation=1
- References & further info on quantum optics and quantum field theory:
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/81/3/211/1032373/There-are-no-particles-there-are-only-fields
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Philosophical_Foundations_of_Quantum_Fie/UYziwAEACAAJ?hl=en
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Essential_Quantum_Optics/eAogAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Quantum_Field_Theory_as_Simply_as_Possib/icEbEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Tales_of_the_Quantum/mGduDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.5 (abstract used with permission from APS and author)
arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0703076
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Quantum_Vacuum/uPHJCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.192252799
- We are grateful to PhET for the simulations used in the video:
PhET Interactive Simulations
University of Colorado Boulder
phet.colorado.edu
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/photoelectric
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/wave-interference
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/faradays-electromagnetic-lab
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/wave-on-a-string
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/magnets-and-electromagnets
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/fourier-making-waves
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Empedocles and Parallel metal plates images were created with the assistance of ChatGPT
All other photos are in the public domain
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0:00 - Intro
2:40 - The classical EM field
5:20 - The quantised EM field
9:14 - Elementary excitations of the quantised EM field
14:02 - A photon is NOT a particle
20:23 - The big picture
www.youtube.com/@ForestLearn?sub_confirmation=1
- References & further info on quantum optics and quantum field theory:
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/81/3/211/1032373/There-are-no-particles-there-are-only-fields
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Philosophical_Foundations_of_Quantum_Fie/UYziwAEACAAJ?hl=en
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Essential_Quantum_Optics/eAogAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Quantum_Field_Theory_as_Simply_as_Possib/icEbEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Tales_of_the_Quantum/mGduDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.5 (abstract used with permission from APS and author)
arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0703076
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Quantum_Vacuum/uPHJCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.192252799
- We are grateful to PhET for the simulations used in the video:
PhET Interactive Simulations
University of Colorado Boulder
phet.colorado.edu
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/photoelectric
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/wave-interference
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/faradays-electromagnetic-lab
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/wave-on-a-string
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/magnets-and-electromagnets
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/fourier-making-waves
- Video credits:
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swatch+soda/stock.adobe.com
vladim_ka/stock.adobe.com
VideoLand/stock.adobe.com
- Audio credits:
Douglas/stock.adobe.com
Vaudeville Drum Stings 01 performed by Douglas/stock.adobe.com
Ibiza House Loop 2 performed by Majed Salih/Jamendo/stock.adobe.com
- Photo credits:
Alexandr Blinov/stock.adobe.com
sada/stock.adobe.com
Who is Danny/stock.adobe.com
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla%3Asegre)
unsplash.com/photos/green-lizard-on-clear-glass-panel-izRfVtrRX30
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Young_by_Briggs_cropped.jpg
Henry Perronet Briggs, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Empedocles and Parallel metal plates images were created with the assistance of ChatGPT
All other photos are in the public domain
- Other credits:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electromagneticwave3D.gif
Lookang, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
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I can’t thank you enough for these videos, they’ve truly helped a ton! I have a couple questions and your response would be highly appreciated as my edexcel ial exam is in about a week. When im asked to find the direction of the emf is it the same as the direction of the conventional current? Because the mark scheme tends to use “from P to Q” for example, P and Q being the two ends of the wire, insted of saying p is positive and q is negative. Also, Im unsure of the difference between the left and right hand rules, from your videos I understood that you believe the left hand rule is enough, does that mean i can always use it? My teacher told me that right hand rule always works except for a generator Thank you so much for your time, and happy new year
Thanks for your v kind words! 1) Yes - the direction of the induced emf is the direction of conv current. 2) The left hand rule can be used whenever there is cutting of field lines (so types I and III). I would say at this stage that if you're comfortable using the right hand rule for qns then no harm in using it. [I didn't mention right hand rule in any of the playlist vids, but you may have seen my pinned post in this vid which summarises my attitude to it: th-cam.com/video/ZkO_fBTbtec/w-d-xo.html ] Hope this helps - happy new year to you as well and all the best with your exams :)
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Nobody listens. i keep posting black holes are black because photons never get in. photons can't be compressed. they are rejected.
@narfwhals7843 TH-cam seems to have lost a long careful comment. Aaarghh. [Twice, but the second time I was more careful, so I'll try posting this as a separate comment instead of as a reply.] We can choose different test function spaces. (1) functions that are infinitely often differentiable, for which the function and all its derivatives decrease faster than any power as x moves to infinity in any direction. sin(x) doesn't satisfy that constraint. (2) functions that are square integrable, so they have a Fourier transform that is also square integrable (this is quite natural from a Hilbert space point of view, but (1) is more commonly used by mathematical physicists.) sin(x) also doesn't satisfy this second constraint. [(2) does not constrain the derivatives of the function at all, but (1) constrains all its derivatives, so we can have intermediate choices that constrain only some derivatives.] There is a mathematical structure called a "Rigged Hilbert space" that allows us to use objects like sin(x), but that needs rules that can be delicate. Elementary presentations of QM effectively channel that mathematics, but there should be a proviso at some point that says something like "this doesn't always work." IMO, it's best not to use that kind of structure for QFT because it matters that 'line widths', the frequency range of a laser, say, are never zero in experimental physics. If we have a measurement device, its spec sheet will say something about how much we should think of its results as averaged over a small region. It might say that it averages the EM field over a few nanoseconds, for example, at ~GHz rates, or, much more expensive, it might say that it averages over a few picoseconds, but no amount of money will buy us a measurement device that can tell us the EM field at a point, with no averaging at all. A test function is part of what tells us how that averaging of the EM field is done. The EM field in QFT, with 'quantum noise' added, is discontinuous, so it's mathematically even more badly behaved than Brownian motion, for which trajectories are continuous but not differentiable. 'Smoothing' the EM field by averaging over a small region gives us back mathematical control, but it still needs care. Not so long, not so careful, but most of the bare bones of the earlier comment included. Hopefully not too incomprehensible and not too elementary. tl;dr is just "yeah, that's physicists playing fast and loose with the delta function."
My reply to a comment by @dbz5808 doesn't appear to show up always, so posting it here: Comment: Van der waals forces (aka London forces) are not the same as the Casimir effect, rather they are a competing explanation for certain observed phenomena. Van der waals forces are described as arising in net neutral non-ionic bodies due to electron repulsion, causing slight charge separation (polarity) and thus a small attractive force. It is described classically, while the description for the Casimir effect is quantum in nature. Reply: Thanks for your comment. I didn't mention (or even imply) that Van der Waals (VdW) forces are the same as the Casimir force. Classical microscopic attempts to derive the VdW force run into problems. As I hinted, field theory does the job though - see Sec. 3.11 of 'The Quantum Vacuum' by P.W. Milonni (link in the description).
@ForestLearn Nice video. What are the different classes of light? Please name them explicitly
Thanks for watching and your comment! From left to right (at 9:05) they are: photon number states, coherent states and squeezed states. There are more classes - check out a quantum optics book (such as Ulf Leonhardt's that I linked to in description) for more info.
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Van der waals forces (aka London forces) are not the same as the Casimir effect, rather they are a competing explanation for certain observed phenomena. Van der waals forces are described as arising in net neutral non-ionic bodies due to electron repulsion, causing slight charge separation (polarity) and thus a small attractive force. It is described classically, while the description for the Casimir effect is quantum in nature.
Thanks for your comment. I didn't mention (or even imply) that Van der Waals (VdW) forces are the same as the Casimir force. Classical microscopic attempts to derive the VdW force run into problems. As I hinted, field theory does the job though - see Sec. 3.11 of 'The Quantum Vacuum' by P.W. Milonni (link in the description).
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@@ForestLearn so wait wouldnt an LED? be a photon too. Technically photons are still waves. But photons of light are light at a specific color.
@@56jklove LEDs emit classical light, far away in character/properties from photon states.
@@ForestLearn so how come LEDs are a product or application of quantum mechanics? I know lasers are photons. But in LEDs the light is produced by electroluminescents. Meaning electricity excites electrons to a certain orbit and they emit photons. But if we are being honest. Photons are particles that make up light. More so they are particles or discreet packets that make up the frequency or energy of light. They have no definite size or dimensions. It all goes down to Wavelengths. One wavelength of light is what makes up light. The wavelength is inverse to the frequency which correlates to the energy. But if we are just talking about photons as just quantum states. Then u may be right. Ok so after looking this up, u are half right. But an LED and laser can still be an emission of light by photons. More so the fact that LEDs and Lasers can emit light at one color. Meaning it's not continuous. They are just not single photons. Quantum dots are more so an example of single photons. But the fact remains even in classical light, light is also made out of photons. But what else is an example of light being emitted as single photons?
@@56jklove Please see the following two resources which should hopefully answer some of your questions: physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/physicsatmit_05_vuletic.pdf#:~:text=Subsequently%2C%20a%20single%20photon%20can,the%20array%20of%20phased%20oscillators en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_source
What do you mean that classical light has no photons? This is just nonsense internet physics. As you wrote out yourself, classical light is represented as an indefinite number of photons. When you perform a measurement it will collapse to a definite number of photons. Any quantum state can be written as an indefinite or definite number of photons. All this anti-photon nonsense just leads to confusion. Also why does an uncertain number of photons mean no photons but an uncertain value for the electric field means the field is real?
What I meant and tried to explain is that classical light (be it from a table lamp or even a laser) is far removed from a pure (in the quantum, technical sense) photon state. If lasers or lamps sufficed, there wouldn't be the huge efforts to produce pure single photon states on demand for quantum technologies (say from NV centres in diamond, as I mentioned in vid). There is nothing in the video that is 'anti-photon': it's merely an attempt to explain/clarify what physicists understand a photon to be to a wider audience.
@ Classical light is not a SINGLE photon state. Classical light is a MULTI photon state with a indefinite number of photons. If you perform multiple experiments the number of photons detected will fluctuate above and below the average value. You still get photons with classical light. You just don’t get a single photon state with classical light.
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One of the best "photons are not particles" videos I've seen on TH-cam. Congratulations. There's a technical issue that I think you could get into even at the level you're aiming at. We have to consider the 'smeared' QEM field because the electric field measured at-a-point in the vacuum state has zero average, 〈Eᵢ(x)〉=0, but ∞ variance, 〈Eᵢ(x)²〉=∞, which we avoid by averaging over a small region using a smearing function uⁱ(x), Eᵤ=∫Eᵢ(x)uⁱ(x)d⁴x. [We could call the 'smearing function' uⁱ(x) the 'weighted average function' and it's similar to an idea in signal analysis that is called a 'window function'.] We can't talk about the field at-a-point for QEM, but we can talk about smeared measurements like Eᵤ because〈Eᵤ²〉is finite. We can also use Eᵤ to construct non-vacuum states such as Eᵤ|0〉or Eᵤ²|0〉, which are different from the vacuum state everywhere, but they are somewhat localized in a way that you suggest is not possible when you say at about 11'00" that "depicting photons as local wave packets is misleading and only perpetuates confusion". That is, QEM has tools that let us construct almost-localized wave packets. This is a tricky detail, but I suggest it would be better not to say something quite as categorical as what I've just quoted. In an academic context, I have been developing an approach to QFT that I mostly illustrate using QEM because it's the simplest example of a quantum field. If you have time, see on my TH-cam channel the video of the talk I gave to the Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar on October 24th, titled "A Dataset & Signal Analysis Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory". Best wishes!
Thanks for your comments Peter, very interesting - I will try to check out your talk! My point about photons depicted as localised wave packets being misleading etc. is that the impression is given that photons are no more than classical waves - no attempt is made (usually) to point out their quantum character.
@@ForestLearn If you decide to look at my talk, you will find that it (and the published papers it is based on but tries to push away from) takes there to be three issues for QEM: (1) noncommutativity, (2) noise, and (3) complex analyticity. The idea of a 'photon' can be a very useful shorthand when discussing an apparatus, but I think it's better to use other mathematics to try to understand the nature of the straightjacket that it introduces. As I see the mathematics, 'photons' are not necessary, but I'm increasingly trying to discover ways to think about the mathematics in *another* different way: complex analyticity is perhaps too subtle. Analyticity surreptitiously introduces nonlocality in a mathematically controlled way that will be at least marginally familiar to any engineer or physicist who knows signal analysis enough that they have been introduced to the difference between the 'analytic signal' and the 'real signal' - I'm specially interested in how to rethink everything so that it's more intuitively useful for engineers, but I would take it as a much better win if I can make the concepts more accessible than that. As a first response to your second sentence (which is certainly well-taken), I think 'coherent' states *can* be understood as *very* like classical waves with a Lorentz invariant noise added, where the noise being Lorentz invariant is everything of what makes it 'quantum' instead of 'thermal' noise. [I'm whiteboarding stuff here, in what tries to be a response that is sensitive to your video and to your comment above. No guarantees that I make no mistakes! I will be happy to continue here or elsewhere, but I will also be happy if you decide this is a distraction from how you want to develop ideas on your TH-cam channel. There are good reasons why you haven't heard of this approach to QFT as well as what I hope are good reasons why some convenors have risked asking me to present talks, some of which you will find on my TH-cam channel. Trying and failing here to thread the needle of TMI and not.]
I think the question "What is a photon" doesn't really have a unique answer, because what a photon is depends on your choice of basis. You can say a photon is a excitation of a base mode. But that is a choice of basis. You can just as well say that photon is a perfectly localized peak, because the Dirac delta is a valid basis, as well. A photon is whatever is useful at the time, which is why this is causing confusion in science communication. At least, that is my take as a layperson.
@@narfwhals7843 Most of the time that's an OK way to think about photons, IMO. One pushback: the Dirac delta function gives us what could be called a 'singular' basis. It has the mathematical difficulty that a Dirac delta function cannot be squared, so that if we're being mathematically careful we don't use it. The Dirac delta function is a special case of a 'distribution' (one kind of 'generalized function'), which Physicists often use too much as if they're just ordinary functions, but doing that sometimes has consequences that have to be tidied up later. Disclaimer: I have a math degree, an MSc in particle physics, and I've been engaged in physics research for 30 years, but I don't have a PhD, so my comments might be not total BS but don't take them as definitive🙂
@@PeterMorganQF PhD or no PhD, I wouldn't take anybody's comments as definitive :) You and @narfwhals7843 may find the following paper ('Why photons cannot be sharply localized') interesting: arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3712 . Also check out Art Hobson's article I linked in the description and references within.
Thank you soo much for the wonderful explanation, you've explained it better than any teacher, book or website and even better than Chat GPT got to say!!! Just one clarification: In the graph labelled in 5:54 , would the magnet enter and exit at terminal velocity (meaning that forces of repulsion and attracting would balance out respectively with the weight of the magnet). Then once the magnet is inside the coil, it accelerates again due to gravity (its own weight). Would that mean the sequence of motion from time=0s to time=0.4s (ignoring air resistance) would be: Acceleration>Deceleration>terminal velocity>acceleration>deceleration>terminal velocity> acceleration (once it completely leaves the coil)
Thanks for the super kind words, glad it helped :) Regarding your question: no, in general there's no reason to assume that the magnet would ever reach terminal velocity on entry or exit. In contrast to typical terminal velocity scenarios involving drag forces (which increase with the speed of falling object), here, the repulsive/attractive force exerted by the coil depends on the induced emf magnitude, making this scenario a bit different and more subtle. Be careful about 'the sequence of motion': the magnet would only decelerate (slow down) if the magnetic force were at some point greater than the magnet weight - again, something we can't just assume. Hope this helps - let me know if you have further questions!
@@ForestLearn Thank you soo muchh!!! literal life saver!!!
@@pahcreates378 You're welcome :)
Heya nice video! Might have to introduce number states a bit better, the phase space and the hamiltonian is super important to understand before jumping to observables, coherent state and so on. But awesome explanation!
Thanks for watching and your nice comments :) Agreed, the Hamiltonian, phase space and so on are crucial for an in depth understanding - I left these things out to ensure the vid is a basic (and mostly non-technical) intro to quantum optics!
I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH !!!!!!
My pleasure, thanks for watching :)
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Isn't the vacuum full of stable neutrons though? In this version of reality light is a longitudinal wave of magnetically inducting neutrons. Nobody will listen though.
You clearly have no clue. Just jargon.
Clearly - trivially true upon inspection. QED
Light is death of Matter. - Shiban Lal Pandita Black holes don't emit Light because they are the Birth of Matter. (Current theories are wrong about them being the death of stars.... they are the birth of them.) Photoemissions > Photons Phantoemissions > Phonies
VacUUm or voID... atom 1st is a whirLing , screw as Tesla said. MOta means coil. Or meta as selfaware hole. Keterle said same, just put in perspective things...In so called S BEC DrUMB BEL LIP SOID s ... atom + atom = 4 atoms ..so yes 1+1 = 4 Mixing is STr8 line move...MIXing MM I CS unlike Archimedes screw..going up or down... spinors they call it...opposing vortices There is vortex or field (PhiVe) and there is O we call STate taSTe. ST is from r-nose-ance. 29 TN DN 2J ST In OXO \ and / are... / β 13 \ 2 & 8 In a square 1232132 diagonals are 11 and 33, and RhomBUS MOrhSUB is 2222. Flat or planar or tabular 4 YO and tubular( bell, music of the spheres) as 7..colors theorem torus. OO 4²=16~ 7²=49~4... Interesting is 0 4 8 16 enigma of glass... upandatom on bubbles.
Light 89 is sound in aether...true nature of light is darkness...Nikola Tesla quote. Wave do not exist. DiSTurbAnce is time wave or vibration. Or STationary or ST-andi-ng STiLL wave. RainBow is not a real object. Yes, we see it. Actually magnetization and brain mind interpretation ... each of us see personalized version. Angled, inclined,..etc. cohe = echo r-ence... 'ance ence' is from anda or ellipse, helice ++. light + light = darkness or shadow..Shu as god of rising EMPtY.( CHArge for instance) Photomolecular, photoelectric effect... phOtOn trapped among knots of electrical bubbles we call matter. Retarded form. That is cork-screwed ENergy. EN or e9 is hole. Cenote. Gap, like charge giving colors... Water 88 and light 89 have same soliton letters HYX. Word play or something more... OO as OXO tensors... phOtOn cOlOr dOnOr mOtOr rOtOr cObOrdiSM...
Nice video, clearing up an important distinction. But it leaves so many open questions! Are there no photons in sunlight? How do we connect this back to Maxwell's Equations? Is a two photon state the same as a state with one photon of twice the energy? How do lasers actually work? What are the tied down ends of the EM field? Why does it have modes? Quantum optics deep dive when?
Thanks for watching and the kind words! All very interesting questions, which may well be addressed in a future deeper dive :)
Check out a channel called Hyugen's Optics, specifically his video entitled How Big Is A Photo. It answers your questions.
Colours is frequency in any state. Because Colours are sanse of humans. Photons are different frequency in different state when we observed its menifest from opaque
Quantum means Quantity
If you cannot easily explain light, then you do not know what light is.
what is it then?
@@KhwerzLight is "a coaxial circuit, An induction containing two axial and one longitudinal/radial components like a split wheel or a vortex antenna. Spatial electrical and magnetic components, induce each other via the dielectric center axial and radial point. You can go on line for an image, or imagine in your mind dropping a stone into still water you will see two phenomena manifest, perpendicular to one another, the radial waves of the water, and what rises out in the line of propagation, which is a drop, and this water drop is what is described in the mathematical description called a ‘photon’. The smaller the space, the higher the capacitance. The higher the power the light, the smaller the waves and the bigger the (of power) drop, this is why Gamma radiation is so dangerous, its literally quasi-matter; but also still merely light. Look, Tesla is right “I consider this extremely important. Light cannot be anything else but a longitudinal disturbance of the Ether, involving alternate compressions and rarefactions. In other words, light can be nothing else than a sound wave of the Ether” - In saying light is a ‘sound wave of the Ether’ reveals that light is not an emission for nothing emits light nor does anything emit sound. Sound is a perturbation of the nitrogen and oxygen of the air, which has a rate of induction or propagation, and this rate of induction is not fixed, either for light or sound. We know sound changes rates (wrongly “speeds”) depending on elevation, humidity and temperature. The same is true of light which changes its rate of induction in air, glass, water etc. All notions of speed regarding light are false ones, since speed infers something is moving from A to B, and this is utterly false. As for light ‘waves’ - waves are what things do, not what things are. Nature has no contradictions and there for Light cannot be a duality as both a particle and a wave. Light in simplex explanation is coaxial circuit Ether perturbation modality." KW
@@Khwerz Light is "a coaxial circuit Ether perturbation modality." an induction containing two axial and one longitudinal/radial components like a split wheel or a vortex antenna.
@@Khwerz The spatial electrical and magnetic components induce each other via the dielectric center axial and radial point.
@@Khwerz You can go on line for an image, or imagine in your mind dropping a stone into still water you will see two phenomena manifest, perpendicular to one another, the radial waves of the water, and what rises out in the line of propagation, which is a drop, and this water drop is what is described in the mathematical description called a ‘photon’. The smaller the space, the higher the capacitance. The higher the power the light, the smaller the waves and the bigger the (of power) drop, this is why Gamma radiation is so dangerous, its literally quasi-matter; but still light.
this is awesome. thank you for making this
Thanks for the kind words :)
You're INSANELYYYYYY underrated what the heck
As long as some people find this stuff helpful that's all that really matters :)
Underrated
great stuff, you deserve more views
Thanks for watching and your very kind comment :)
this saved me, thanks so much!!!
Glad to hear that :)
thank yoou
You are welcome :)
Saved me from a lot of stress. thank you so much
Glad to hear that :)
test on this in about 2 hours thanks lol
Good luck :)
So then why does the copper disc still generate current when the magnet is not stationary, but is attached to it and rotates at the same speed as it does?
Can this help calculating the resonance peaks in for example - In Ear Earphones? As the ear canal is a form of a tube, can I predict the interactions of waves frequency-wise?
Interesting question! Yes, I think so - it'd be a nice exercise to calculate the harmonic (resonant) frequencies of an ear canal and to compare that with the resonance peaks.
Thank you so much! these are definitely my top mistakes!
Glad the vid helped - fingers crossed those mistakes are a thing of the past now :)
when u raise a magnet weighing 100 grams upto a hieght of 100 meters, u put 100 joules of energy into it, when u drop that 100 grams magnet through the coil, the magnet fall takes 2 seconds and the coil generates 50 joules of energy. is there a way to generate more energy from the falling magnet of same weight from same hieght? yes, just increase the winding on the coil, now the coil has 4 times winding than it was before, now raising the magnet to same hieght takes the same amount of energy (=100 joules), but dropping the same magnet through the coil of bigger winding now generates more energy, and the fall of magnet takes more time (let's say 8 seconds) because of more back emf because of more current in coil. can you make and show graph and calculations of this situation please?
thanks bro
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Extremely helpful! Thank you very much for this video.
You're welcome, glad you found it useful :)
The magnetic force on the sector that is resisting the change in direction , is this where and why there is back emf on motors ?
Hi, great observation! The cutting of field lines gives rise to a magnetic force which is responsible for the induced emf + current in the Faraday dynamo. In a motor, again, the cutting of field lines gives rise to a magnetic force. But this force now opposes the motion of the electrons i.e. reduces the current; remember the current is present in the first place due to an applied/external emf across the motor. Thus, the overall emf is reduced by an amount known as the 'back emf' (the word 'back' implying opposition/reduction). [Note: the back emf is usually referred to as an induced emf, but I'm not sure that's helpful terminology.] Anyway, hope the above made some sense, hope to do a vid on back emf one of these days. In the meantime let me know if you have any further questions!
wrong. forget the magnetic lines as they dont exist. it's all about dynamic induction. so you can get currrent from this even if both disc and magnet stationary and outside contact stays at same distance from center. th-cam.com/video/gduYoT9sMaE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0WdL6ZkCtSz2XE2X
This is absolutely incredible simplification of physics. Thanks
Thanks for your kind words!
i am really grateful..been trying to understand this since 4 days but couldnt get it..this made me understand within minutes. thank you so much!!the visual representation really helped!
You're welcome, really glad to hear that it helped :)
Sir, I really appreciate your video. It rescued me from the deep struggle of not understanding what physics is talking about. I wish you to have a wonderful day!
Very happy to hear that! Your comment made my day :)
is there a current density distribution considering that the speed of the charge from inside to outside radius increases?
Hi, thanks for your question and apologies for the late reply! Yes - you're correct :)
I'm going to university of Leeds on this September as an undergrad in theoretical physics.
Congratulations! You'll no doubt bump into Jiannis there :)
@@ForestLearn I'm eager to meet him 🤩
@@jayantachoudhury4397 Of course :) Mention this interview to him when you do!
@@ForestLearn I'll for sure!
@@jayantachoudhury4397 :) Hope you have a great time there!
What would happen if you use a YBCO disc at 65°K ?
*with-rotation axile inline crystal structure