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The Mechanical Universe 38
Alternating Currents |
Electromagnetic induction makes it easy to generate alternating current while transformers make it practical to distribute it over long distances.
Ch Frame Code Title
1 A Opening Sequence
2 02474 G Generating Power With Alternating Current
3 06328 V Niagara Falls
4 07559 A An Alternating-Current Circuit
5 08200 H Tesla's AC Versus Edison's DC
6 08710 A AC Versus DC Circuits
7 09809 H Portrait Of Tesla
8 10596 H Edison And His Inventions (this is too long)
9* 16759 A Alternating LC Circuit
10* 19391 E Mechanical Resonance Shattering A Glass-Ella!
11 19750 V A House And Television Shows
12* 20768 A Electrical Analogy To A Mass On A Spring
13 22521 V Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
14* 32112 A Frequency Effects: RC, LC, And RLC Circuits
15 27041 H Westinghouse And Edison's War Of Currents
16 29966 V Hydroelectric Power Plant
17 30071 P Transmitting Electric Power
18* 34321 A Effects Of Alternating Current Through Coil (transformers)
19 37250 V Automobile Assembly Plant
20 38012 H Edison's Electric Power Generators
21 39415 H City Streets And Edison's Laboratory
22 40801 V Airplane Lift-Off
23 41171 V Old Radio
24 41606 H Tesla's Inventions
25 42846 V Niagara Falls
26 43531 G Tesla's Shaping Of The World
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Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007