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Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Home

ISBN: 9780071621649 | 0071621644

Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Pub. Date: 5/17/2010

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Sales Handle Finally ' a project book spun from the most highly respected and best selling TAB electronics book ' Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics! With dozens of experiments on currents and magnetism, and information about how to set up a lab for each group, this book will be sure to thrill the budding Benjamin Franklin in all of us.About the Book Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Homeis a hands-on, self-teaching guide intended for people who want to get familiar with, or deepen their knowledge of, the principles of electricity a... MOREnd magnetism.This book is more than a mere collection of experiments and projects. Each item contains a reader-friendly tutorial, along with instructions for performing the relevant experiment. This approach reinforces the reader's knowledge of the "why" as well as the "what" and the "how-to."Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Homeis divided into three major sections, entitled "Direct Current," "Alternating Current," and "Magnetism." Each section begins with a chapter that tells the reader how to set up a lab for the experiments to follow. The first experiments in each section are simple, and are intended to reinforce the theoretical material taught in basic courses. Examples include verifications of Ohm's law, the rules for series and parallel resistances, behavior of light bulbs in series and parallel, and alignment of iron filings in a magnetic field. Later experiments in each section are fairly sophisticated, intended to encourage inventiveness, stimulate curiosity, and spark interest in exotic ideas and projects.Features Helps readers to: Solve circuit problems in electricity Explore the relationship between electricity and magnetism Obtain "real-world" verification of theoretical concepts Enhance knowledge of how electrical and magnetic devices work Build practical and interesting electrical and magnetic devices Get ideas for science-fair projects Imagine new circuit ideas and designs Prepare for advanced courses in electricity and electronics Learn the basics of laboratory practice Includes a list of suppliers for all parts used in the book Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Homeis intended as a self-teaching course. However, this book can be also used in a classroom setting along with traditional texts. This book goes into detail about the "why" of each explored phenomenon, reinforcing theory as well as offering practical instructions for carrying out experiments or building projects. Bridges a market gap between the theoretical and the practical.Market / Audience High school and trade school students in science, physics, electricity and electronics courses; students looking for science fair project ideas; electronics hobbyists; readers of Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics; readers of Electricity Demystified; libraries. (200,000)About the Author Stan Gibilisco (Deadwood, SD)writes books and magazine articles about general science, mathematics, electronics, and computing. He has worked as a technical writer in industry, as a radio engineer, and as a magazine editor. One of his books,Encyclopedia of Electronics(TAB Books, 1985), was named by the American Library Association (ALA) in its list of "Best References of the 1980s." Another of his books,McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Personal Computing(McGraw-Hill, 1995), was named as a "Best Reference of 1996" by the ALA. In recent years, Gibilisco has written several math and science volumes for the McGraw-Hill Demystified library. His Web site (www.sciencewriter.net) links to information about all of Gibilisco's published books.

Power up your understanding of electricity and electronics with dozens of experiments on currents and magnetismElectricity Experiments You Can Do At Homeis a hands-on, self-teaching guide that will help you get familiar with, or deepen your knowledge of, the principles of electricity and magnetism. Each item contains a reader-friendly tutorial, along with instructions for performing the experiment. This approach reinforces your knowledge of the "why" the "what," and the "how-to."The book is divided into three major sections: "Direct Current," "Alternating Current," and "Magnetism." Each section begins with a chapter that explains how to set up a lab for the experiments to follow. The first experiments in each section are simple and reinforce the basic theory. Later experiments are fairly sophisticated and are intended to encourage inventiveness, stimulate curiosity, and spark interest in exotic ideas and projects.Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Homehelps you to: Solve circuit problems in electricity Build practical and interesting electrical and magnetic devices Get ideas for science-fair projects Prepare for advanced courses in electricity and electronics Learn the basics of laboratory practicePacked with hands-on experiments: Home DC lab; Electrochemical cells in series and parallel; Reverse cells in a series connection; Make cells with fruits, acids & metals; Verify Ohm's Law; Combine resistors in series & parallel; Combine resistors in series-parallel networks; Build & analyze a "nightmare network" of resistors; Demonstrate Kirchhoff's 1st Law; Demonstrate Kirchhoff's 2nd Law; Build and test a voltage divider; Graph voltage, current & resistance; Measure DC power as volt-amperage; Measure body resistance; Measure the resistance of a liquid; Test the resistance of a bulb with variable voltage; Build a compass galvanometer; Build a foil-leaf electroscope; Build a diode-based voltage reducer; Build a solar-cell light meter; Assemble solar cells into a panel; Test partial shading of solar panel; Build a battery charger with solar cells; Separate water into hydrogen and oxygen; Build a solar-powered hydrogen production plant; Home AC lab; Don't be shocked!; Build a diode-based bulb saver; Build an AC light dimmer; Test incandescent bulbs; Test ballasted bulbs in your garage-door opener; Demonstrate induced currents between coils; Build an AC transformer; Build a low-voltage AC/DC power supply; Build a voltage regulator; Measure AC voltages "between grounds"; Build a ground-fault detector; Use a computer as an oscilloscope; Observe how diodes rectify AC; Observe how filter capacitors work; Measure AC ground voltage and current; Capture AC energy from the air; Get AC from a battery; Build a 60-Hz AC field-strength meter; Build a box-fan anemometer; Build a box-fan battery charger; Build a wind-powered hydrogen production plant; Build a baseband electromagnetic audio-visual monitor; Build a baseband optical audio-visual monitor; Build baseband inductor-capacitor filters ; Home magnetism lab; Looking at flux lines in 2 dimensions; Looking at flux lines in 3 dimensions; Alignment of a magnet in the geomagnetic field; Measure geomagnetic inclination and declination; Build a Gauss meter; Make a permanent magnet; Make a DC electromagnet; Make an AC electromagnet; Can you demagnetize a magnet?; Interactions of DC electromagnets with permanent magnets; Interactions of AC electromagnets with permanent magnets; Interactions of AC electromagnets with each other; Magnetic force on a current-carrying wire; Test materials for ferromagnetism; What metals allow magnetic fields through?; Build a magnetic accelerator; Build a solenoid; Test magnetic disks and tapes near magnets; Build a magnetic heat engine;Build a magnetic levitation device; Deflect an electron beam with a magnet; Hear and see geomagnetic echoes

Amp up your understanding of electricity and magnetism with DOZENS OF DO-IT-YOURSELF EXPERIMENTS

Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Home is a hands-on guide that helps you master the principles of electrical currents and magnetism. Each of the book's three sections--direct current, alternating current, and magnetism--begins with step-by-step instructions for setting up your lab for the experiments that follow. Using inexpensive, easy-to-find parts, the experiments progress from basic to more complex and will spark ideas and encourage inventiveness. Expect unexpected results when you experiment with:

Diode-based voltage reducer
Compass-based galvanometer
Photovoltaic illuminometer
Utility bulb saver
Ripple filter
Xener-diode voltage regulator
AC spectrum monitor
Ampere's law with wire loop
AC electromagnet
Handheld wind turbine
And dozens more projects

ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN DO AT HOME helps you to:

Solve circuit problems in electricity
Build practical and interesting electrical and magnetic devices
Get ideas for science-fair projects
Prepare for advanced courses in electricity and electronics
Learn the basics of laboratory practice

Based on the bestselling TAB Electronics book, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, this new project book features dozens of experiments on currents and magnetism, plus details on how to set up a lab for each group.

About the Author
Stan Gibilisco writes books and magazine articles about general science, mathematics, electronics, and computing. He has worked as a technical writer in industry, as a radio engineer, and as a magazine editor. One of his books, Encyclopedia of Electronics (TAB Books, 1985), was named by the American Library Association (ALA) in its list of "Best References of the 1980s." Another of his books, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Personal Computing (McGraw-Hill, 1995), was named as a "Best Reference of 1996" by the ALA. In recent years, Gibilisco has written several math and science volumes for the McGraw-Hill Demystified library. His Web site (www.sciencewriter.net) links to information about all of Gibilisco�s published books.

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