Kitchen Course in Electricity and Magnetism

J. David Nightingale has taught physics for over 30 years at SUNY New Paltz. More recently he has been a regular essayist for Northeast Public Radio, authoring many essays on famous scientists from history. Prof. Nightingale has previously co-authored the Springer book "A Short Course in General Relativity", now in its third edition.

• Part 1 Home Electrostatics.- Background.- Kitchen experiments with static electricity.- Part 2 Current & Voltage.- Water analogy.- Galvani’s frogs’ legs.- Part 3 Magnetism.- Lodestones.- Further view of magnetism.- Part 4 Transistors.- Re-visit the diode.- The pn junction.- Experiment – diode graph.