Electrostatic Force
Electricity and Magnetism

Gold leaf electroscope

Practical Activity for 14-16 PRACTICAL PHYISCS

The device is used for detecting electric charge and can also identify its polarity, if compared with a known charge.

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Electrostatic charges

Historically, the first observations and experiments with electricity involved...

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Electricity and Magnetism IOP RESOURCES

Static gravity

Otto von Guericke developed a demonstration to make his case that the attractive force of the Earth was not gravitational in...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Electric Field
Electricity and Magnetism PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Forces in an electrostatic field

Demonstration: a shuttling ping-pong ball serves as a model of ions moving in an electric field.

Practical Activity 14-16

Collisions
Forces and Motion PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Collisions with electrostatic forces

Demonstration: An illustration of a collision with invisible forces.

Practical Activity 14-16

Electricity and Magnetism Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many pupils offer explanations of electrical effects in terms of energy, rather than electric current

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many pupils are unable to make correction predictions about the potential difference across each resistor in a series circuit given the battery's potential difference and the resistance of the resistors

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

At lower secondary level, some students begin to think of magnets ‘pulling on’ objects and to be aware of action at a distance

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