PhysicsLAB: Electricity and Magnetism Background

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Electricity and Magnetism Background

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I. Famous people

Volta

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/volta.html

Gilbert

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/gilbert.html

Faraday

http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/faraday.html

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/mediacenter/publications/flux/vol3issue2/faraday.html

Oersted

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/oersted.html

Tesla

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/tesla.html

Hertz

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/hertz.html

II. water flow related to electrical current flow

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/currentflow/index.html

III. energy of the battery is defined by its voltage

http://dev.physicslab.org/asp/applets/javaphysmath/java/resist2/default.asp

How does the current change when the voltage is held constant and the resistance of the resistors in increased?

IV. Oersted - magnetic fields around wires

compass orientation

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/oersted/index.html

circular fields

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/magwire/index.html

forces between parallel current carrying wires

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/parallelwires/index.html

field inside a current-carrying coil of wire

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/solenoidfield/index.html

V. Faraday and electromagnetic induction

current induced in a coil by changing the proximity of a magnetic field (bar magnet)

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/electromagneticinduction/index.html

current induced in a coil by changing its area

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/inducedcurrent/index.html

induced voltage in a secondary coil by changing the currents in a primary coil

http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/transformer/index.html

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