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Electrons are easy (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My advanced E&M professor said "Imagine a sphere of radius zero. Trust me, it works."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

"...Imagine a sphere of radius zero."

and a spherical cow. imagining lots of spherical cows helps quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Radiating milk equally in all directions, of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Which constantly stays as a stream but looses density with r^2 (while still being a liquid!)