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In this video we tear down Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Edition written by Edward Purcell and David Morin and published in 2013.
Electricity and Magnetism is one of the books I am taking notes for as a part of my Learning the Art of Electronics project. These notes are a perk for people who support me on Patreon, so what are you waiting for!? :)
There is a website for the book maintained by the publisher, but regrettably there’s not much there, just some material available to instructors only: https://www.cambridge.org/Purcell-Morin
I mention two xkcd comic in the video, those are these: Farads and Nerd Sniping.
The “esu” is prounounced as “eee-ess-you” and is also known as the Statcoulomb.
I mention the Franck–Hertz experiment which happens to be something I wrote a Hackaday article about: A DIY Version Of The Franck-Hertz Experiment.
The first edition of Electricity and Magnetism was volume two in a five volume course: Berkeley Physics Course.
The books mentioned in Chapter 1 include The Flying Circus of Physics and How Things Work.
The websites mentioned in Chapter 1 are:
The Feynman (1977) reference is to The Feynman Lectures on Physics which is also available here: www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
The symbol: ∇ (“nabla”, an upside down Δ “delta”) is the vector differential operator and its key uses are:
- ∇f → gradient of scalar
- ∇·F → divergence of vector field
- ∇×F → curl of vector field
- ∇² → Laplacian
The Big Clive video that I mentioned was this one: How a stungun creates 20kV from a 9V battery.
I also mention the show’s wiki, the ITL Wiki, which is on the web over here: https://www.inthelabwithjayjay.com/wiki/
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