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The Mechanical Universe and Beyond

Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience (IPPEX), Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
Program 30: Potential & Capacitance. History of Franklin, the Leyden jar and parallel plate capacitor. Program 31: Voltage, Energy and Force. Electric safety, potential and its gradient, energy and sparks. Thirty-minute on-demand streamed physics lecture / animated presentations hosted by Professor David Goodstein of the California Institute of Technology as part of the Annenberg / CPB series The Mechanical Universe and Beyond.
http://www.learner.org/progdesc /index.html?uid=42
This site requires cable modem (384K) or better speed connection to the internet and free registration with Annenberg / CPB.

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