Electricity in Gases (Electrical Properties of Materials #7)

What is so special about silicon? Why are some materials more conductive to electricity than others? Where does static electricity come from? This 14-video lecture series introduces electronics from a materials perspective, and is based on a course which all freshman engineering students take at the National University of Singapore. In this video: 1:52 Gravitational wells versus electromagnetic wells 4:13 Safety around high voltage 6:32 Line worker near a high voltage line 7:59 Wimshurst generator demonstration 10:10 Wimshurst generator in various gases 13:17 Paschen's law Nearly 70 additional practice problems are available in the MOOC version of this course, along with supplemental videos: https://www.edx.org/course/electronic... Aaron Danner is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. http://danner.group Videos were filmed by NUS Centre for Instructional Technology with additional editing by Cheryl Lim. @randomcheryl