Electricity category: 1639 books

In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age...

  The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series is a self paced course of instruction intended for the technical education of Navy and Fleet Marine Force Personnel while they are not assigned to training commands. Chapters in this volume include: Introduction to Radio...

This 44th edition—part of a series continuously published for more than 80 years and based on the 2014 National Electrical Code—is a handy instruction manual that has been used by generations of readers who learn the “why” as well as the “how-to” of wiring practices. Encouraging readers...

From the Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series, this is an excellent primer about electronic theory. It goes into great detail about various types of emission tubes, as well as power supply circuit design, operation, and regulation. Includes many high quality illustrations and...

On the Various Forces of Nature and Their Relations to Each Other is an overview of gravity, electricity and magnestism, by the famous physicist Michael Faraday.

Plasmas comprise more than 99% of the observable universe. They are important in many technologies and are key potential sources for fusion power. Atomic and radiation physics is critical for the diagnosis, observation and simulation of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas, and plasma physicists working...

This ebook presents the Solar Energy Systems , first part of the book focuses on solar photovoltaic systems and Includes, the development of solar cells through three generations, Solar tracking PV systems, Solar concentrator PV systems, Luminescent Concentrators Systems, Hybrid solar systems, 3D-...

Defined by the authors as "a serious attempt to develop electrodynamics on a postulational basis and to define each concept in the most general way," this advanced undergraduate text takes a logical rather than historical approach. The treatment presupposes some knowledge of electricity...

Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.

A history of electricity and electronics. How the puny electron at first bothered mankind, then gradually became useful, and now dominates our lives. And the story of the people who encountered this mysterious particle.

This is a brief excerpt from the Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series. Lessons Include Reading and identifying components within simple schematics Power is defined, along with the difference between voltage and power. Power computation in series, parallel and combination circuits....

An excerpt from the Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series, this is an impressive primer on batteries and battery cells including  wet cell and dry cell chemistry. The module comprehensively covers lead acid batteries, like those used on diesel submarines,  and a variety...

Fuel cell technology is quite promising for conversion of chemical energy of hydrocarbon fuels into electricity without forming air pollutants. There are several types of fuel cells: polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC), phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC), molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC), solid oxide...

This textbook presents a basic course in physics to teach mechanics, mechanical properties of matter, thermal properties of matter, elementary thermodynamics, electrodynamics, electricity, magnetism, light and optics and sound. It includes simple mathematical approaches to each physical principle,...