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Is electromagnetic induction and flux covered on the MCAT?
I am pretty comfortable with problems requiring basic circuits with resistors and capacitors, and I know the pertinent equations that need to be know but how much do we need to know about magnetism and induction.
I recently took the TPR practice exam #5 and the passage that I did worse on a passage that had several questions on a galvanometer and it asked which way the current was moving through a coil and somehow a force was created that moved a needle. I remember this topic from physics 2 but I took that 2 years ago and I have forgotten much of what I knew about magnetism. Should I go back and learn what a galvanometer does (or can someone explain to me the pertinent information) or am I going to be okay since I heard that magnetism/flux/ R hand rule are not really tested anymore. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
BTW I looked at some of the wikipremed videos on electricty and in the section on induction he specifically goes over a problem involving a galvanometer but do I really need to know it that indepth
I am pretty comfortable with problems requiring basic circuits with resistors and capacitors, and I know the pertinent equations that need to be know but how much do we need to know about magnetism and induction.
I recently took the TPR practice exam #5 and the passage that I did worse on a passage that had several questions on a galvanometer and it asked which way the current was moving through a coil and somehow a force was created that moved a needle. I remember this topic from physics 2 but I took that 2 years ago and I have forgotten much of what I knew about magnetism. Should I go back and learn what a galvanometer does (or can someone explain to me the pertinent information) or am I going to be okay since I heard that magnetism/flux/ R hand rule are not really tested anymore. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
BTW I looked at some of the wikipremed videos on electricty and in the section on induction he specifically goes over a problem involving a galvanometer but do I really need to know it that indepth
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