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How do I obtain a sense of scale when thinking about webers?
This Wikipedia article provides a wonderful way to fathom the scale of the tesla. I cannot seem to find a similar set of examples about magnetic flux. I know that the milli-, micro- and nanoweber are ...
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CGS Units to SI Units
This may be a stupid question but I am having trouble getting the same result in CGS units as I would if I used SI units for a unitless calculation.
I have to calculate $E_c=\frac{m_e c\, ...
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coulomb force in SI and cgs
Coulomb force in SI is
$ F = \frac{Q1*Q2}{4\pi\varepsilon R^{2}} $
while in CGS
$ F = \frac{Q1*Q2}{R^{2}} $
why is it? I mean doesn't it any make difference in dimension? since $ \varepsilon $ ...
