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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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

Force
Forces and Motion

Forces and motion home experiments

A selection of experiments that are suitable to use remotely with your students.

Remote teaching support 11-14 14-16 16-19

Ionising Radiation
Quantum and Nuclear PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Using an electroscope

A gold leaf electroscope measures potential difference between the leaf and the base (or earth). The leaf rises because it is...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Some students conflate magnetic and electrostatic effects

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