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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Martinus van Marum’s machine

Martinus van Marum's machine: Martinus van Marum, a Dutch physician, developed an interest in the physical sciences and was...

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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

Electrostatic Force
Electricity and Magnetism PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Flowing fluids can become charged

Demonstration: to illustrate the dangers associated with transferring fuel.

Practical Activity 14-16

Electricity and Magnetism Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many pupils cannot identify reliably from a diagram whether or not two resistors in a circuit are in parallel when they are drawn in an unfamiliar format.

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many pupils see circuit behaviour as a sequence of causes and effects, rather than seeing the whole circuit as an interacting system.

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Some younger pupils may associate magnetism with gravity (seeing one as the cause of the other), and/or think that both require the presence of air.

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