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What does electromagnetism mean?

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  1. A unified fundamental force that combines the aspects of electricity and magnetism and is one of the four fundamental forces. (technically it can be unified with weak nuclear to form electroweak) Its gauge boson is the photon.
  2. Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
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Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, for example, united the previously disjointed phenomena of electricity and magnetism.
For electromagnetism, the coupling constant is proportional to the square of the electric charge.
One of the first topics he studied, which developed from his early work on electromagnetism, was a new topic, now called the fractional calculus.
The most familiar, and second strongest, force described in the standard model is electromagnetism.
Heath classes them as dealing with energy transfer, electromagnetism, mind-matter interplay, and acausal factors.
For the remainder of his life he sought without success a unified field theory embracing electromagnetism, gravitation, and quantum mechanics.

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