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ArkyBeagle t1_jdxq6fx wrote

> The true answer is that they aren't two different things but two expressions of one thing: electromagnetism.

Whether we call it electricity or magnetism is almost an artifact of how we measure it. Although the needle on an old-school analog voltmeter is a magnetic device...

I always liked the cover to Richard Lyon's "Understanding Digital Signal Processing". It's not specifically about E&M but the picture just lights the idea up for me:

https://books.google.com/books?id=UBU7Y2tpwWUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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