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Electricity, Magnetism and Light

  • A History of Electricity and Magnetism, to Conservation of Charge
    • Introduction
    • Early History
      • How the Amber Effect Works
    • Seventeenth.Century Electricity and Magnetism
      • Gilbert’s Systematic Study of the Amber Effect
      • The Versorium: The First Instrument for Detecting Electricity
    • Eighteenth-Century Electricity
      • Gray: Conductors versus Insulators
  • Coulomb’s Law for Static Electricity, Principle of Superposition
  • The Electric Field
  • Gauss’s Law: Flux and Charge Are Related
  • Electrical Potential Energy and Electrical Potential
  • Capacitance
  • Ohm’s Law: Electric Current Is Driven by Emf, and Limited by Electrical Resistance
  • Batteries, Kirchhoff’s Rules, and Complex Circuits
  • The Magnetism of Magnets
  • How Electric Currents Interact with Magnetic Fields
  • How Electric Currents Make
  • Magnetic Fields: The Biot-Savart Law and Amp re’s Law
  • Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction
  • Mechanical Implications of Faraday’s Law: Motors and Generators
  • Alternating Current Phenomena: Signals and Power
  • Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Optics
  • Appendix A – General Mathematics Review
  • Appendix B – Introduction to Spreadsheets