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Originally Posted by Potironette

Why is distance important in a uniform electric field?

Because the farther apart the plates are, the weaker the field is.

I'm not actually sure what induction is. In class, there was an example of induction as charging one object negative, then moving it nearby another object, then grounding the not-charged object, then moving the negatively charged object away so that the grounded object ended up with a positive charge. In the end, all I got from that was that induction was some indirect way of making an object charged...what's "induction"?

Current traveling through a wire creates an electric field. Another wire inside that electric field will have a current induced in it. It's as simple as that.

So..E = ΔV/d is like I = V/R ?

Yup. The resistance of a wire is directly proportional to its length, even. And there's a similar formula for measuring the energy wasted as heat through a resistor (and wire is a resistor) that's just like E = Vq.