Definitions
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- noun The study of moving electric charges and their interaction with magnetic and electric fields.
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- noun physics The phenomena associated with moving
electric charges , and theirinteraction withelectric andmagnetic fields ; thestudy of these phenomena
Etymologies
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Examples
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Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.
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Each time I would discover something, however, I would go back and I would check it so many ways, compare it to every problem that had been done previously in electrodynamics (and later, in weak coupling meson theory) to see if it would always agree, and so on, until I was absolutely convinced of the truth of the various rules and regulations which I concocted to simplify all the work.
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Quantum electrodynamics is indeed one of the most accurate of all the theories of physics.
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Since the nature and manner of this transmission can be followed up in all its details, the demand that Gauss made for a theory of electrodynamics is fulfilled.
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ELECTRO MAGNET, and to Ampère we are indebted for the actual discovery of the elementary principles of what we now call electrodynamics, or dynamic electricity, [Footnote: In all science there is a continual going back to the past for a means of expression for things whose application is most modern.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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Classical electrodynamics introduced even more ephemeral objects — fields.
Another Look 2009
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This was true of mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and relativity.
Another Look 2009
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I did three months of research in anatomy, surgery, criminology, ancient and modern burial customs, and electrodynamics.
Jack Pierce 2010
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While quantum electrodynamics is a genuine theory of all reality, financial models are only mediocre metaphors for a part of it.
Physics Envy Burton G. Malkiel 2011
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The influential physicist suggested as much just a few years before he won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.
Making Sense of It All Richard Lea 2011
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