College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
5 - 00.00 - Support Equipment used for Electricity and Magnetism
- Jennifer J. Birriel, "Resistance Measurements, DMMs, and LEDs, Oh My", TPT, Vol. 61, #7, Oct. 2023, p. 636.
- Burton Brody, "Repairing Gold Lewaf Electroscopes", TPT, Vol. 14, #6, Sept. 1976, p. 374, also A Potpourri of Physics Teaching Idea - Tricks of the Trade.
- Joy George, K. S. Joseph, B. Pradeep, T. I. Palson, and V. Narayanankutty, "A Field Stabilized Electromagnet for Hall Effect Studies", AJP, Vol. 57, #2, Feb. 1989, p. 184.
- P. N. Murgatroyd and M. Belloufi, "Simple Demountable Helmholtz Coils", AJP, Vol. 56, #5, May 1988, p. 478.
- Michael Nunez, "A Headphone Grows in Brooklyn", Popular Science, Sept. 2015, p. 14.
- J. Lukin, The Boy Engineers, Forgotten Books, 1901, reprinted 2012, p. 332-339.
Files
- Batteries
- Buzzer or Bell - Electric
- Capacitors - Decade
- Circuit Boards
- Circuit Diagrams
- Compass and Dip Needle's
- Electrometer
- Electroscopes - Braun & Equipoise
- Electroscopes - Central Scientific & Project - O - Scope, & Low Cost
- Electroscopes - FET Type
- Electrostatic Generators - Dirod
- Function Generators
- Galvanometer - Lecture Table
- Hand Crank Generator - Genecon
- Hard Drives
- Helmholtz Coils
- Inductor - Data Sheets
- Induction Coil
- Iron Fillings
- Knife Type Heaters
- Magnetic Pole Tester
- Magnetizer
- Magnets
- Meters
- Nalgene Dessicators
- Object Lamp
- Oscilloscopes (9B37.00)
- Piezo Electric Generator
- Resistors - Decade
- Rowland Ring
- Standard Cells - Weston
- Switches
- U-Core
- Ultra-Capacitors
- Vacuum Tubes
- Variac
- Voltaic Pile
- Voltage Tester
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