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| Sep 30, 2020 at 16:12 | comment | added | probably_someone | "The test charge ultimately only reacts to the net field, and doesn't know the difference between whether that net field came from multiple sources or a single source." - This is extremely important, because it makes it very clear that electromagnetism still follows Newton's Third Law (there's a common misconception that it doesn't because people think two charges should form an action-reaction pair; this picture makes it clear that the action-reaction pair should be the charge and the electromagnetic field itself). | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 16:06 | history | answered | Kai | CC BY-SA 4.0 |