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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Electrostatic Force
Electricity and Magnetism PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Further electrostatic experiments

Demonstration: these experiments could be used at the same time as elementary experiments with charged rods and polystyrene...

Practical Activity 14-16

Electrostatic Force
Forces and Motion PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Introduction to electric forces

Demonstration: Electrostatic forces are an example, like gravitational and magnetic forces, of "action at a distance".

Practical Activity 14-16

Electrostatic Force
Electricity and Magnetism PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Forces due to electric charges

Demonstration: charged materials exert forces on each other which might be attractive or repelling. The closer the materials...

Practical Activity 14-16

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Some students conflate magnetic and electrostatic effects

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