Static Electricity: Charging an Electrophorus by Induction Using a Negatively Charged Object

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written by Tom Henderson

This animation depicts the common physics demonstration of charging an aluminum pie plate by induction. The detailed text explanation helps students understand grounding and separation of charge. 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/epn.cfm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - 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:: June 24, 2009 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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