The Mechanical Universe 33
Electric Circuits


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The Mechanical Universe 33 - Electric Circuits

The work of Wheatstone, Ohm, and Kirchhoff leads to the design and analysis of how current flows.
Ch	Frame	Code	Title
1			A	Opening Sequence 
2	02484		G	Lectures At The Royal Institution 
3	06089		V	Parker Dam 
4	06928		V	Water Wheel, Well, Aqueduct 
5	09423		V	Electric Generator 
6	10440		V	Los Angeles Downtown 
7	11085		V	Parker Dam 
8	11785		E	Simple Electric Circuit 
9	12355		A	Definition Of Ampere 
10	13220		V	River 
11	13550		E	Volta's Battery 
12	14720		E	First Electric Lamp 
13	15210		E	Telegraph Desk 
14	16090		V	Steam Locomotive 
15	16610		H	Charles Wheatstone 
16	16995		H	George Simon Ohm 
17	17720		A	Ohm's Law 
18	18720		E	Edison's Lab 
19	19640		V	Steam Locomotive 
20	21620		V	Aqueducts 
21	22415		A	Resistors In Series And In Parallel 
22	24799		V	Water Pipe Design 
23	27319		E	Marbles In Viscous Liquids 
24	28694		A	Electrons In A Metal 
25	31568		E	Marbles In Liquids 
26	32118		A	Electrons In Metals - Defects; Applied Fields 
27	32718		E	Edison's Early Lights 
28	33298		E	Supercomputer 
29	34158		A	Power In A Circuit 
30	35148		V	Parker Dam 
31	38328		H	Robert Kirchoff 
32	38523		A	Kirchoff's Laws 
33	39857		A	Energy Conservation And Kirchoff's Second Law 
34	42248		V	Lake Havasu And Parker Dam 
35	43127		A	Capacitive Discharge 
36	43547		V	Lake Havasu And Parker Dam 
37	44852		V	Los Angeles Downtown 
38	45377		G	Lectures At The Royal Institution 
	48950			credits
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Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007


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