Electrostatics
Circuits
Magnetism
Maxwell's Equations
Andrew's Trivia Corner
100

Per the Coulomb force, like-charged particles, like two protons, do this to each other.

What is repel?

100

Kirchhoff's Loop Rule states that the change in electric potential over a closed circuit loop is equal to this quantity.

What is zero?

100

The Lorentz force acts on charges that are doing this in a magnetic field.

What is moving?

100

All of Maxwell's Equations can be expressed in these two different forms.

What are integral form and differential form?

100

This novel by Harper Lee features Atticus Finch arguing for Tom Robinson's innocence after he is accused of rape. 

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

200

The electric field inside of a conductor is always equal to this.

What is zero?

200

Capacitors in parallel have an equivalence capacitance equal to this.

What is the sum of the capacitances in parallel?

200

Lenz's Law shows that current induced by changes in magnetic flux do this to those changes.

What is counteract/reduce? (Similar answers acceptable)

200

Gauss's Law states that the electric flux through a surface is equal to this quantity.

What is the enclosed charge over epsilon naught?

200

This city is the second-largest city in Switzerland and a large center for international diplomacy; it hosts the most international organizations of any city in the world.

What is Geneva?

300

The reference point for where electric potential energy is zero is typically chosen to be this distance.

What is at infinite distance?

300

The power of an ohmic resistor is equal to this quantity (in terms of current and resistance).

What is current squared times resistance?

300

Two parallel wires with currents going in the same direction do this to each other.

What is attract?

300

This Maxwell equation without a formal name states that the divergence of the magnetic field is zero.

What is the "no magnetic monopoles" equation?

300

This artist, considered a founder of the Impressionist movement, is famous for his paintings of water lilies.

Who is Claude Monet?

400

The electric field for an infinite charged wire is related to distance in this way.

What is by 1/r?

400

The inductance of a long solenoid is equal to this expression.

What is mu naught times the winding density squared times the volume of the solenoid?

400

In cases of mutual inductance, the induced voltage in the non-current-carrying wire is equal to this quantity.

What is - the mutual inductance constant times the time derivative of the current in the current-carrying wire?

400

Faraday's Law states that the negative derivative of the magnetic flux through a surface with respect to time is equal to this.

What is the integral of the electric field over the curve that forms the boundary of that surface?

400

This man won the most MVPs in MLB history, though his legacy has been tainted by accusations of steroid use and he has not been inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Who is Barry Bonds?

500

The dipole electric potential is equal to this expression times one over four pi epsilon nought.

What is the dot product of the dipole vector and the distance vector over the distance cubed?

500

The capacitance of a spherical capacitor can be expressed as this.

What is four pi epsilon naught times R1 R2 over R2 minus R1, where R1 and R2 are the radii of the capacitors and R2 > R1?

500

The Biot-Savart Law shows that the magnetic field of a current-carrying wire is equal to mu naught over 4 pi times the integral of this quantity.

What is dl cross r minus r naught over the magnitude of r minus r naught cubed?

500

The Maxwell-Ampere Law states that the curl of the magnetic field is equal to this quantity.

What is mu naught times the current density plus mu naught times epsilon naught times the partial derivative of the electric field with respect to time?

500

The War of the Triple Alliance in the 1860s saw this country lose approximately 60-70% of its population.

What is Paraguay?