Electricity in a Vacuum (Electrical Properties of Materials #9)
Can you get a spark in a vacuum tube? Learn what all you need to get electrons flowing inside a vacuum tube.
In this video:
00:18 Can you get a spark in a vacuum tube?
01:24 Anodes and cathodes
02:12 Definition of Work Function
03:06 Thermionic emission
03:44 Diode (vacuum tube)
04:31 Photoemission
05:50 How to measure the work function experimentally
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. 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
