Frying Pan Electrophorus

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This web page provides instructions for building an Electrophorus from common household items. This type of capacitor was invented by Volta and may have been used to amplify voltage in his experiments. A historical perspective and links to other materials on electrostatics is provided.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/electrph.htm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - Capacitance - Electrostatics	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 1998 David Stern
Keywords:: capacitor, electroscope, electrostatics, interactive lesson, take home lab
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created September 30, 2005 by Henry Bradsher
Record Updated:: April 2, 2011 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 4, 2005
Other Collections:: The PSRC

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/introphys/items/detail.cfm?ID=3219">Stern, David. Frying Pan Electrophorus. January 4, 2005.</a>

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D. Stern, (1998), WWW Document, (http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/electrph.htm).

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D. Stern, Frying Pan Electrophorus (1998), <http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/electrph.htm>.

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Stern, D. (2005, January 4). Frying Pan Electrophorus. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/electrph.htm

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Stern, David. Frying Pan Electrophorus. January 4, 2005. http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/electrph.htm (accessed 28 April 2025).

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Stern, David. Frying Pan Electrophorus. 1998. 4 Jan. 2005. 28 Apr. 2025 <http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/electrph.htm>.

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@misc{ Author = "David Stern", Title = {Frying Pan Electrophorus}, Volume = {2025}, Number = {28 April 2025}, Month = {January 4, 2005}, Year = {1998} }

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