MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - A van de Graaff Generator Attracting a Charge

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This is an animation depicting a negatively-charged particle attracted by the positively-charged sphere of a van de Graaff generator. The item may be viewed as a video or in stepped motion.

This item is part of a larger collection of visualizations developed by the MIT TEAL/Studio Physics Project to support an introductory course in electricity and magnetism. Lecture notes, labs, and presentations are also available as part of the MIT Open Courseware Repository:
MIT Open Courseware: Electricity and Magnetism

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http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostati...

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Education Practices - Technology = Multimedia Electricity & Magnetism - Electric Fields and Potential = Electric Field = Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy - Electrostatics = Coulomb's Law	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Rights Holder:: MIT Open Courseware (OCW): http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm
Keywords:: Coulomb, animation, electric field, electrostatic generator, electrostatics video, field lines, grass seeds, statics, video
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 6, 2010 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: April 15, 2010 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 2, 2008
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=9941">Belcher, John. MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - A van de Graaff Generator Attracting a Charge. May 2, 2008.</a>

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J. Belcher, (2004), WWW Document, (http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/VandeGraffAttract/VDGAttract.htm).

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J. Belcher, MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - A van de Graaff Generator Attracting a Charge (2004), <http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/VandeGraffAttract/VDGAttract.htm>.

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Belcher, J. (2008, May 2). MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - A van de Graaff Generator Attracting a Charge. Retrieved April 28, 2024, from http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/VandeGraffAttract/VDGAttract.htm

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Belcher, John. MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - A van de Graaff Generator Attracting a Charge. May 2, 2008. http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/VandeGraffAttract/VDGAttract.htm (accessed 28 April 2024).

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Belcher, John. MIT Physics 8.02: Electrostatics - A van de Graaff Generator Attracting a Charge. 2004. 2 May 2008. National Science Foundation. 28 Apr. 2024 <http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/electrostatics/VandeGraffAttract/VDGAttract.htm>.

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