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Electricity, magnetism, and light /

A very comprehensive introduction to electricity, magnetism and optics ranging from the interesting and useful history of the science, to connections with current real-world phenomena in science, engineering and biology, to common sense advice and insight on the intuitive understanding of electrical...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saslow, Wayne M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, �2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Review/Preview Electricity: Its Uses and Its Visualization
  • 1 A History of Electricity and Magnetism, to Conservation of Charge
  • 2 Coulomb's law for Static Electricity, Principle of Superposition
  • 3 The Electric Field
  • 4 Gauss's Law: Flux and Charge Are Related
  • 5 Electrical Potential Energy and Electrical Potential
  • 6 Capacitance
  • 7 Ohm's Law: Electric Current Is Driven by Emf, and Limited by Electrical Resistance
  • 8 Batteries, Kirchhoff's Rules, and Complex Circuits
  • 9 The Magnetism of Magnets
  • 10 How Electric Currents Interact with Magnetic Fields
  • 11 How Electric Currents Make Magnetic Fields: The Biot-Savart Law and Amp` ere's Law
  • 12 Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction
  • 13 Mechanical Implications of Faraday's Law: Motors and Generators
  • 14 Alternating Current Phenomena: Signals and Power
  • 15 Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Radiation
  • 16 Optics
  • Appendix A General Mathematics Review
  • Appendix B Introduction to Spreadsheets
  • Appendix C The Periodic Table
  • Appendix D Solutions to Odd-Numbered Problems.