A Kitchen Course in Electricity and Magnetism

This book will show you how to build a battery, detect static electricity, and construct a basic current meter, all using common items from your kitchen. Along the way, you'll learn about the meaning of "voltage" and "current," what makes an LED work, and the difference betw...

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Main Authors: Nightingale, David. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Spencer, Christopher. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05305-9
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 Home Electrostatics
  • Background
  • Kitchen experiments with static electricity
  • Part 2 Current & Voltage
  • Water analogy
  • Galvani’s frogs’ legs
  • Part 3 Magnetism
  • Lodestones
  • Further view of magnetism
  • Part 4 Transistors
  • Re-visit the diode
  • The pn junction
  • Experiment – diode graph.