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This 5-minute video explores the central role that fields play in modern physics and how scientists use field theories to pursue their disciplines. Physicist Beatrice Bonga says as the video opens, "All physics is fields. I wouldn't even know how to do a calculation without fields." The video is straightforward enough for Grades 8-12 while introducing more complex concepts such as energy and momentum in fields, how fields can be measured using scalar and vector points, and why scientists view fields as mediators of interactions.
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Electricity & Magnetism
- Electric Fields and Potential
= Electric Field
- Magnetic Fields and Forces
= Magnetic Fields
Modern Physics
- General
Quantum Physics
- Foundations and Measurements
- Quantum Field Theory
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
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Keywords:
field energy, field momentum, fundamental forces, vector fields
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Metadata instance created February 21, 2022 by Caroline Hall
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Types of Interactions (PS2.B)
  • Forces at a distance are explained by fields (gravitational, electric, and magnetic) permeating space that can transfer energy through space. Magnets or electric currents cause magnetic fields; electric charges or changing magnetic fields cause electric fields. (9-12)
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, edited by D. Pope (Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, 2019), WWW Document, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWwFX5hwfo).
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Perimeter Institute: The Reality of Fields, edited by D. Pope (Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, 2019), <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWwFX5hwfo>.
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Pope, D. (Ed.). (2019, October 1). Perimeter Institute: The Reality of Fields. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWwFX5hwfo
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Pope, Damian, ed. Perimeter Institute: The Reality of Fields. Waterloo: Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, October 1, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWwFX5hwfo (accessed 1 May 2025).
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Pope, Damian, ed. Perimeter Institute: The Reality of Fields. Waterloo: Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, 2019. 1 Oct. 2019. 1 May 2025 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWwFX5hwfo>.
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