Lessons in practical electricity; principles, experiments, and arithmetical problems, an elementary text-book (1902)
Swoope, Coates Walton. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 75
owing throughthe wire connecting the plates. The greater this differenceof potential the greater the current, or effect of the currentproduced. Potential is the force which moves electricity through thecircuit. The total force required to cause the current to flowthrough the entire circuit is… … VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY, 57 viated E. M. F.) is the total difference of potential (abbre-viated P. D.) that is maintained in an}^ circuit. Exp. 11: Insert two similar pieces of copper or zinc in the acidu-lated tumbler of water and test for a current by a detector galvan-ometer. The needle is not…
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