Benjamin Franklin and the dissectible capacitor: his observations might surprise you

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/AA854DMaRDI QIDQ4601979zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Glenn S. Smith

Publication date 25 January 2018

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aa854d

zbMATH Keywords

electrostaticshistorycapacitorBenjamin Franklin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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