1626: "Can You Hear Electricity?"

About this episode

The episode explores the phenomenon of sound associated with electricity and its various manifestations in nature and experiments.

Interesting Things with JC #1626: "Can You Hear Electricity" – A glass globe spins under a hand in a London lab as charge builds and sharp snaps break the air, but the sound isn’t electricity and the same effect continues from lab sparks to lightning strikes to power lines as air keeps expanding under sudden energy.

People in this episode

Host: JC

Topics covered

• electricity
• sound
• energy
• science
• experiments

Keywords

• electricity
• sound
• lightning
• energy
• experiments

Mentioned in this episode

Products: glass globe

Places: London

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