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Understand how the concept of touch changes with the presence of electrons between two objects
Learn how the presence of electrons between two objects changes the notion of touch....
Learn about Michael Faraday's and James Clerk Maxwell's discovery of the electromagnetic field and waves
The properties of electromagnetic fields and waves.
Learn about space expansion and why gravity and electromagnetism are not affected when space expands
A brief overview of space expansion.
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electric field
Figure 1: Electric fields. (Left) Field of a positive electric charge and (right)...
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magnetic field
Magnetic field of a long wire. (A) An end view, with the current flowing toward the...
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magnetic force
Figure 3: Magnetic force on moving charges. The magnetic force F...
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demonstration of Faraday's and Lenz's laws
Figure 4: Demonstration of Faraday's and Lenz's laws.
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AC transformer
Figure 5: An AC transformer (see text).
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displacement current
Figure 6: Current i charging a capacitor as an illustration of Maxwell's...
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Otto von Guericke's electrostatic generator
The electrostatic generator of Otto van Guericke, which he built in 1663.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's experiment proving the identity of lightning and electricity.
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apparatus designed by Joseph Priestley for electricity generation and storage
Apparatus designed by Joseph Priestley for the generation and storage of electricity,...
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Faraday, Michael
Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London,...
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Alessandro Volta: wet pile
Illustration from “On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances...
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Faraday's magnetic induction experiment
Figure 7: Faraday's magnetic induction experiment. When the switch S is closed in...
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cathode ray
Cathode rays casting a shadow of a Maltese cross in a Crookes tube, powered by a...
Alchaemist
transatlantic telegraph cable
HMS Agamemnon in 1858 laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable while a whale...
The Atlantic Telegraph by W.H. Russell, 1865. Ebook 40948/Project Gutenberg
Bell, Alexander Graham: telephone
Alexander Graham Bell filing the patent for his telephone at the United States Patent...
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