{"id":2444,"date":"2008-03-31T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T10:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/31\/dorky-poll-e-or-m\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T10:38:24","slug":"dorky-poll-e-or-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/31\/dorky-poll-e-or-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: E or M?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My post-tenure sabbatical, alas, is officially over today, as I begin teaching the honors section of the introductory E&M class. This will keep me busy for most of the morning, which makes it the perfect opportunity for a Dorky Poll:<\/p>\n

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Electricity or magnetism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, I know they’re unified, and thus merely different manifestations of a single electromagnetic force. That’s not the question– you have to pick one or the other. Which one do you take?<\/p>\n

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Electricity would seem the obvious choice, given that the Internet isn’t much good without it. Magnetism has that cool and counter-intuitive thing going for it, with all those cross products and the lack of magnetic monopoles.<\/p>\n

It’s a tough call, but I’ll go with magnetism. What’s your pick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My post-tenure sabbatical, alas, is officially over today, as I begin teaching the honors section of the introductory E&M class. This will keep me busy for most of the morning, which makes it the perfect opportunity for a Dorky Poll: Electricity or magnetism? Yes, I know they’re unified, and thus merely different manifestations of a… Continue reading Dorky Poll: E or M?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}