A kitchen course in electricity and magnetism. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Nightingale, Christopher Spencer.
• Authors: Nightingale, David; Spencer, C (Christopher)
• Contents: Preface; Contents; Background; 1: Home Electrostatics; 1.1 Static Electricity; 1.2 A Charge Detector; 1.3 Using Plastic Wrap; 1.4 What Has Happened; 1.5 Experiment: Two Plastic Strips; 1.5.1 What Is Happening; 1.6 Atoms; 1.7 Experiment: Bending Water; 1.8 Dipoles; 1.9 Experiment: Comb and Paper; 1.9.1 What Has Happened; 1.10 Making a Kitchen Electroscope; 1.11 Experiments with the Kitchen Electroscope; 1.11.1 What Has Happened; 1.12 Leyden Jar: Capacitors; 1.13 E Fields; 1.14 Experiment with Electroscope and Leyden Jar; 1.14.1 What Has Happened. 1.15 Experiment: Charging by Inducing Charges (May Be Omitted with No Loss of Continuity)1.15.1 What Has Happened; 1.16 More on Conductors and Insulators; 1.16.1 What Happened; 1.17 Lightning: Franklin ́s Bells and More; 2: Current and Voltage; 2.1 Water Analogy; 2.2 Galvani ́s Frogs ́ Legs, and Volta ́s Experiment; 2.2.1 Tongue Experiment (After Volta); 2.3 Experiment: Voltaic Cell; 2.4 Experiment: The Voltaic Pile; 2.5 Humphry Davy ́s Voltaic Pile; 2.6 Sidebar Experiment: Electroplating; 2.7 Experiment: Potato Battery; 2.7.1 What Was Happening; 2.8 Amps, Volts, Energy, Power. 2.9 Experiment: Current Through a Bulb2.9.1 What Is Happening; 2.10 A Fuse; 2.11 Making a Current Meter; 2.12 Another Way to Get a Voltage: Seebeck Effect; 2.13 Peltier Effect; 2.14 Yet Another Way to Get a Voltage: Piezoelectricity; 2.15 L.E.D.s vs. Bulbs; 2.16 Concept of Resistance; 2.17 Ohm ́s Law; 2.17.1 A Graph for Ohm ́s Law; 2.17.2 Experiment: Resistance of a Household Bulb; 2.17.3 What Was Happening; 2.18 Equivalent Definition of Power; 2.19 Lighting the LED; 2.20 The Solar Cell: A (Part-Time) Battery; 2.21 More on pV Cells (Solar Cells or Photodiodes). 2.21.1 Actual Solar Cells from the Stores2.21.2 Note on Rechargeable Batteries: NiCad, NiMH, Li-Ion; 2.21.3 Nickel Cadmium (NiCad); 2.21.4 Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH); 2.21.5 Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion); 2.22 A Charging Circuit, and a Difficulty; 2.23 Brief History of Electrical Diodes; 2.24 More Symbols; 2.24.1 Comment on the Various Uses of LEDs:; 2.25 Series and Parallel: Water Analogy; 2.26 Elements of Automobile Wiring; 2.27 Current Measurements; 2.28 Voltage Measurements; 2.29 Resistance Measurements; 2.30 Alternating Current and Direct Current (AC and DC); 2.31 Skin Effect. 2.32 An AC Experiment with LEDs3: Magnetism; 3.1 Lodestones; 3.1.1 The North; 3.2 Further View of Magnetism; 3.3 A Kitchen Compass; 3.4 Angle of Dip; 3.5 Diamagnetism; 3.6 Paramagnetism; 3.7 Ferromagnetism; 3.8 Shielding; 3.9 Different Magnet Shapes; 3.9.1 Aurora Borealis; 3.9.2 Magnetic Bacteria; 3.9.3 Tapes and Swipe Cards; 3.10 What Causes a Magnetic Field?; 3.11 Oersted ́s Experiment; 3.11.1 Shape of the Field Due to a Loop; 3.12 A Coil; 3.12.1 Experiment; 3.13 Inductance (L); 3.14 A House Alarm; 3.15 Experiment: Force on a Current Near a Magnet (Lorentz Force).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 621.3; Physics; Electricity -- Popular works; Magnetism -- Popular works; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical; Electricity; Magnetism; Science -- General; Science -- Electricity; Science -- Magnetism; Technology & Engineering -- Electronics -- General; Popular science; Optical physics; Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism; Electronics engineering; Science (General); Magnetism; Electronics; Technology & Engineering -- Electronics -- Circuits -- General; Circuits & components; Electronic books; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319053059; 3319053051; 3319053043; 9783319053042
• Related ISBNs: 9783319053042
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 5, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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