Author Question: In addition to their usefulness in understanding physics, electromagnetic fields have an significant ... (Read 27 times)

j.rubin · **on:** Jul 29, 2018

In addition to their usefulness in understanding physics, electromagnetic fields have an significant philosophical implication. What is this implication?

A) They support the materialism of Newtonian physics.
B) The laws of electromagnetic fields imply that atoms are not real.
C) The laws of electromagnetic fields imply that atoms are real.
D) They represent a departure from the materialism of Newtonian physics.
E) They change our basic notions of what time and space mean.

Question 2

The amount of potential energy possessed by an elevated object is

A) relative to a chosen reference level.
B) equal to the work done in lifting it.
C) equal to the kinetic energy it will acquire when freely falling to its reference level.
D) all of the above