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History 181B: Modern Physics
Class 5 (1/31/03)
Electricity and magnetism
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Work, waste, and the second law
Electricity, magnetism, and fields
Peculiar phenomena
Magnets
Static electricity
Sparks and batteries
Laplacian approaches: Coulomb
A comment on Coulomb
Interconvertibility
Electromagnetism
Understanding the phenomena: forms of explanation
Faraday and the field |
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Secondary |
lodestone
electrostatics
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
voltage
Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)
inverse square law
Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851)
electromagnetism
André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
induction
lines of force
field |
Presbyterianism
Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), animal electricity
Biot and Savart |
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| Assignment |
Charles-Augustin Coulomb, "Law of Electric Force"
(1785), in A Source Book in Physics, ed. William Francis Magie (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1963), 408-417.
What was Coulomb's goal in these experiments? What
had he determined by the end?
Describe the most important features of his apparatus
and its operation.
Extra: What might make these experiments
hard to carry out as Coulomb described them? |
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