Timeline for Why can't light pass certain materials but Magnetic and Electric fields can
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| Mar 4, 2020 at 14:26 | vote | accept | Struggling_Student | ||
| Mar 3, 2020 at 8:46 | vote | accept | Struggling_Student | ||
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| Feb 27, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1233089651868676096 | ||
| Feb 27, 2020 at 13:00 | comment | added | planetmaker | absorption is frequency-dependent. Light has a very high frequency - especially in comparison to the DC fields of permanent magnets and charged capacitors. you might want to look up on 'Skin depth' which describes the typical penetration depth as function of wavelength | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 12:59 | answer | added | KF Gauss | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 12:01 | comment | added | Superfast Jellyfish | Not all electromagnetic fields are light. And if you bring in a time varying electromagnetic field in a material, you’ll see that there are losses. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 11:47 | history | asked | Struggling_Student | CC BY-SA 4.0 |