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Engineering Science, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Science, 2nd Edition

by Mike Tooley, Lloyd Dingle
August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
22h 16m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 19

Electric charge is all around us. Indeed, many of the everyday items that we use in the home and at work rely for their operation on the existence of electric charge and the ability to make that charge do something useful. Electric charge is also present in the natural world and anyone who has experienced an electric storm cannot fail to have been awed by its effects. We begin this chapter by explaining what electric charge is and how it is quantified, before moving on to describe the ways in which electric charge can be concentrated and stored in capacitors.

19.1 The Nature of Electric Charge

As you already know, all matter is made up of atoms or groups of atoms (molecules) bonded together in a ...

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