Cutnell & Johnson PHYSICS 6/e
Chapter Nineteen: Electric Potential Energy and the Electric Potential

Exploring Electric Fields

by Engineering faculty, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.

http://www.gel.ulaval.ca/~busque00/elec/

An electric charge and field simulator allows viewers to place charges of selected signs and sizes on a map, and then to draw in electric field lines by clicking at various locations on the map. It is possible to create a plot of electric fields resulting from simple charge arrangements. We advise you read the brief explanation before using the applet.


EKG Tutorial Part I

from The Hippocrates Project at the New York University School of Medicine.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/courses/
physiology/courseware/ekg_pt1/

A sophisticated shockwave tutorial describing how electrical depolarization and repolarization of heart tissue drives the heart and is recorded on a standard Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG). Professor Sayegh, Physics Department, University of Michigan also has a site which explains some of the physics of an EKG.

The Hippocrates site contains other multimedia medical tutorials available to the public.


The Mechanical Universe and Beyond

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.


Electric & Magnetic Interactions: The Movies

By Ruth Chabay, NorthCarolina State University.

Short Quicktime 3-D movies intended to accompany Chabay & Sherwood's introductory physics textbook Matter & Interactions II: Electric & Magnetic Interactions. These videos show fields about charges, charge distributions, currents, and electromagnetic waves.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rwchabay/emimovies/

 


Basic E&M with Animation

Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience (IPPEX), Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/electricity/

An overview of basic electricity and magnetism with good animations which require the ShockWave plug-in (directions are at the site). .



Comments, corrections and suggestions to Dan MacIsaac

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