The Physical Universe
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Author: Konrad Krauskopf, Arthur Beiser
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Chapter 6, Problem 2E
Electricity was once thought to be a weightless fluid, an excess of which was “positive” and a deficiency of which was “negative.” What phenomena can this hypothesis still explain? What phenomena can it not explain?
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