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Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Home

Published: May 2010

eISBN: 9780071621632 0071621636 | ISBN: 9780071621649

Book description:

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

Stan Gibilisco

is an electronics engineer, researcher, mathematician, and bestselling author. He has written several Demystified titles and more than 30 other books, including

Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics

. Gibilisco’s book

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Personal Computing

was named as a “Best Reference of 1996” by the ALA.

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Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Home