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ISBN: 9780321902788

Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain

Publisher: PEARSON

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One of the fundamental properties is the electromagnetic property. Charge cannot be destroyed by any process and this contributes formally to the law of charge conservation.

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Chapter 19, Problem 12CQ

When you scuff your shoes across a nylon carpet, you can easily produce a potential of several thousand volts between your body and the carpet. Yet contact with a power line of comparable voltage would probably be fatal. Why the difference?

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