A Kitchen Course in Electricity and Magnetism

✍ Scribed by David Nightingale, Christopher Spencer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Electricity is all around us: cars, telephones, computers, lights -- the modern world runs entirely on electrons. But what are electrons? How do they behave? How do we control them? 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 between AC and DC. The last chapter uses transistors -- the basic building blocks of every computer -- for lots of interesting experiments. With plenty of colorful illustrations, historical stories and an easy, accessible style, "A Kitchen Course in Electricity and Magnetism" will be a great start for budding and amateur scientists who want to learn more about how the world works.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Home Electrostatics....Pages 1-27
Current and Voltage....Pages 29-76
Magnetism....Pages 77-122
Elements of Transistors, and an Integrated Circuit....Pages 123-153
Back Matter....Pages 155-179

✦ Subjects

Electronic Circuits and Devices; Popular Science, general; Optics and Electrodynamics; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation