Lec 6 | MIT 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002

High-Voltage Breakdown
Lightning
Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire

Romanian translation courtesy of Mihai Olteanu.

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[ih8makinusernames]

lol now people can go to MIT from their computers....The internet is awesome :)

[rattyextreme]

Wtf banana?

[DeltaNordicAdvance]

I really like the Romanian translation!

[Pdy18]

45:20 getting something for your 27k tuition haha

[Orionum]

Thanks

[brazenanomaly]

@santoyrayado Earlier in course it was proved that the electric field in a conductor is 0. deltaV = -Ed = 0 therefore the change the potential taken at any 2 points within conductor must be the same, ie equipotential. (by having conducting wire, two spheres become part of same conducting system.

[WannaBeAnEE]

Does anyone else watch this in a room with people without headphones and enjoy the looks on people face like "what the hell does any of that mean!?"

[hmfmi]

I'm enjoying these lectures.

I've always described the smell in the air during or after a thunderstorm as "an electrical smell" or "electricity in the air" and when the person can't relate, I simply say "it's hard to describe" lol. But I suppose that's true for all scents when talking to someone who's never experienced the same thing... Anyway, I can now just simply tell them, "it's ozone"... lol

[santoyrayado]

at about 2:10 , why is there no potential difference when wire is placed to connect both spheres??????

[OKMUNWURX]

Each one of his lectures has something in it that his students will always remember. one time he shot a monkey with a golf ball. Here at the last 3 minutes, he sends some of students out with brown shorts.