Extending Elihu Thomson's demonstration and Lenz's law

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1022-1024

  Perkalskis, Benjamin S ^a   Freeman, J Reuben ^a  

^a JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031489295     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18707     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. This popular demonstration is still referred to as "Elihu Thomson's Experiment," in Russian physics texts while in American texts it is left nameless.
2. Without [with] the capacitor in the secondary circuit, our primary current amplitude was 16 A [15.5 A] and our secondary current amplitude was 5.6 A [3 A].
3. D. Halliday and R. Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1974), section 31-3, pp. 579-581; D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1997), 5th ed., pp. 755-756; J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, 1975), Sec. 6.1; P. A. Tipler, College Physics (Worth, New York, 1987), p. 565; D. Elwell and A. J. Pointon, Physics for Engineers and Scientists (Horwood, Chichester, 1979), p. 302.
4. D. Halliday and R. Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1974), section 31-3, pp. 579-581; D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1997), 5th ed., pp. 755-756; J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, 1975), Sec. 6.1; P. A. Tipler, College Physics (Worth, New York, 1987), p. 565; D. Elwell and A. J. Pointon, Physics for Engineers and Scientists (Horwood, Chichester, 1979), p. 302.
5. D. Halliday and R. Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1974), section 31-3, pp. 579-581; D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1997), 5th ed., pp. 755-756; J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, 1975), Sec. 6.1; P. A. Tipler, College Physics (Worth, New York, 1987), p. 565; D. Elwell and A. J. Pointon, Physics for Engineers and Scientists (Horwood, Chichester, 1979), p. 302.
6. D. Halliday and R. Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1974), section 31-3, pp. 579-581; D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1997), 5th ed., pp. 755-756; J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, 1975), Sec. 6.1; P. A. Tipler, College Physics (Worth, New York, 1987), p. 565; D. Elwell and A. J. Pointon, Physics for Engineers and Scientists (Horwood, Chichester, 1979), p. 302.
7. D. Halliday and R. Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1974), section 31-3, pp. 579-581; D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics (Wiley, New York, 1997), 5th ed., pp. 755-756; J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, 1975), Sec. 6.1; P. A. Tipler, College Physics (Worth, New York, 1987), p. 565; D. Elwell and A. J. Pointon, Physics for Engineers and Scientists (Horwood, Chichester, 1979), p. 302.
8. R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1964), Vol. 2, Sec. II-16-2.
9. E. M. Purcell, Berkeley Physics Course, Electricity and Magnetism Vol. 2 (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1973), Sec. 7.3.