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Explanation of static electricity and its manifestations in everyday life.
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Learn about the relationship between current and resistance in an series circuit.
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Learn about lightning and thunder.
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Learn how cutting-edge construction methods and amenities helped make Chicago's Monadnock...
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Conducting electric current in a solution of electrolytes.
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Overview of coastal renewable energy technology that uses wave action to generate...
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The properties of electromagnetic fields and waves.
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Learn about how potential energy and kinetic energy are harnessed to generate electricity...
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Figure 1: Electric force between two charges.
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Figure 2: The x and y components of the force F...
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Figure 3: Electric field at the location of Q1 (see text).
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Figure 4: Positive charge +Q and two paths in moving a second charge, q,...
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Figure 5: Potential energy landscape. (A) Potential energy of a positive charge near...
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Figure 6: Electrode configuration.
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Figure 7: Numerical solution for the electrode configuration shown in Figure 6. The...
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Figure 8: Equipotential surfaces.
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Figure 9: Electric field lines. The density of the dashed lines indicates the strength...
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Figure 10: Potential energy for a positive charge (see text).
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Figure 11: Parallel-plate capacitor. (A) This storage device consists of two flat...
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Figure 12: Motion of charge in electric current i (see text).
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Figure 14: Voltaic cells and electrodes of a 12-volt lead-acid battery.
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Figure 15: Direct-current circuit (see text).
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Figure 1: Resistors. (A) In series. (B) In parallel.
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Figure 17: Electric currents at a junction (see text).
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Figure 18: Circuit illustrating Kirchhoff's loop equation (see text).
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Figure 19: This type of electric circuit consists of both a resistor and a capacitor...
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Figure 20: Voltage as a function of time (see text).
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Figure 21: Application of the superposition principle to a problem concerned with...
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A sinusoidal voltage. The root-mean-square voltage is 0.707V0,...
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Figure 23: This type of electric circuit has an inductor, resistor, and capacitor...
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Figure 24: Current amplitude (peak current) as a function of ω (see text).
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Figure 25: Average power dissipation versus ω (see text).
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Figure 26: Electromotive force across L versus ω (see text).
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Thomas Edison with a model for a concrete house, c. 1910.
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Lightning discharge triggered by the presence of a tall tower atop Mount San Salvatore,...
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