Static Electricity: Charging a Two-Sphere System by Induction Using a Negative Object

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This animation depicts what happens when a negatively-charged balloon is brought near two neutral conducting spheres. A complete text explanation of the process accompanies the animation. This item is part of Multimedia Physics Studio, a set of animations within The Physics Classroom collection of tutorials for high school physics students.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/estatics/itsn.cfm

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Electricity & Magnetism - DC Circuits - Electrostatics	- High School	- Instructional Material = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2001 Tom Henderson
Keywords:: electrostatics, induction
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created March 15, 2006 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: November 26, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

Quick Animation

Author: Jennifer Broekman
Posted: April 18, 2008 at 4:20PM
Source: The Physics Front collection

This is a nice animation, but it moves quickly and does not have a pause button. I could not read all of the captions before the animation moved on to the next step.

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