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Electricity and Magnets: Charges
Capacitance Units and Energy
Charging Glass via Friction
Photon-photon Collisions
Static Charge on Hair
Energy, Charge, Etc. in Capacitors
Static Electricity and the Strong Force
What is Static Electricity?
Forces Between two Charged Plates
Gauss and Point Charges
Why Skin Flakes Stick to the Wall?
Will Electronics Gain Weight?
Why do Plastic Layers Stick Together?
Magnetic Field Lines Don't Really Exist
Force on a Free Charge
Asymmetrical Parallel Plate Capacitor
Polarizing Barium Titanate Films
What is a Coulomb?
Units of Electricity
Electron's Negative Charge
What Keeps Electrons in Copper?
How Do Insulators and Conductors Interact?
Charge Neutrality in Capacitors
Effects of Charges on Conducting Sphere
Electric Potential Differences
Measuring Electron Mass
Forces on Capacitor Plates?
Photoelectric Charging
Screened Electrical Forces
Dryer Sheets and Static Cling
Do Neutrinos Have Electric Charge?
Current Flow vs. Electron Flow
Pyro and Ferroelectricity
Electrons and Electron-Volts.
Primitive Compass
Origin of Electric Charge
Opposites Attract
Invisible Force Fields, Ionized Air, and Human Charge
Charged-sheath Vortex?
Experiment With Charged Objects
The Charging of Particles
Big Charged Particles
Making Static
Bubbles and Static Electricity
Novel Electrical Power Transmission Idea
Electrons in a Coulomb
What’s a Volt?
Charge is a Real Number
Feeling Electrical Forces
Mysterious Charge Collection
Static Charges
Charging Metal
Hydrogen Neutrality
Positive and Negative
Electron and Photons
Plus and Minus Charges
Storing Static Electricity
Plastic and Hair: A Static-ey Situation
Charged Particles: In People
Faraday's law of Induction
Photocopier
Molecular Dipoles
Electrons Moving in Conductors
Deionized Water Polarity