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Electricity: Simple Circuits
Create your own simple electric circuit. Using simple supplies build your own battery and investigate conductivity. You can also construct a crossword puzzle with electrical vocabulary words.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Point Charge Forces in 2 D Model
In this simulation, examine the electric force that a charged particle gains from nearby charged particles in a two-dimensional state. See the net electric force shown as an arrow attached to the particle.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Point Charge Forces in 1 D Model
Virtual simulation investigating the electric force that one charged particle exerts on another. Plot a graph of the electric force as a function of position.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Three Point Charges Model
In this simulation, investigate the force between charged objects. Rank three charged objects of different magnitudes, then create a method to determine the ranking of the charge magnitudes. Finally, devise a new method of determining...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Lightning Rod
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about charge, electric field, and electric potential in the context of a lightning strike using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet is also available. Includes video tutorial. [3:49]
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric Between Two Particles
Students must find the force on one charge caused by a second charge.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: National Grid Fully Charged
The National Grid is a high-voltage electric power transmission network, connecting power stations and 340+ substations ensuring supply and demand is in the balance. Nigel Williams speaks to Robert Llewellyn about how the National Grid...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric in a Box
Students must find the net force on one of the charges in a rectangular arrangement of charges.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Velocity From Repulsion Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to look at the maximum speed an object can obtain when it is electrically repelled by a like charge.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric in a Triangle
Students must find the net force on one of the charges in a triangular arrangement of charges.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Force on an Electric Current in a Magnetic Field
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn how a magnetic field affects moving charged particles or an electric current carried by a wire.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Flying Tinsel
Can you make tinsel fly? In this activity, experiment with positive and negative charges to suspend tinsel into the air!
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Static Electricity Review
This review from the Glenbrook South High School provides a series of questions on various topics associated with static electricity (such as electrical insulation). Answers and explanations are hidden, yet easily accessed from within a...
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #31 Activity: Static Charged 2x4s
A simple activity that investigates the basic principles behind static electricity. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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Eds Journal: The Control of Risks From Static Electricity
From the ESD Journal website. This page describes the industrial and medical risks associated with the buildup of static charge. The investigation of the electric potential created by such accumulated charges and the materials...
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Moving Electrons and Charges
Learn basic information about electricity on this page. Page explores the movement of charges with text and a video.
McGraw Hill
Online Learning Center: Electric Potential and Capacitance
A series of pages which define key terms and explain basic concepts related to electric potential. Includes a set of practice problems with answers and solutions.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Static Electricity
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project on electricity with a static charge.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Franklin's Electricity
Some research puts Franklin's electrical work in the scientific and political context of his day. An interesting point of view, one not usually found in comments of Franklin and electrostatics. Done by a professor from University of...
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Science Hobbyist: Capacitors Do Not Store Charge
A page which clarifies many static electricity misconceptions, including how a capacitor charges.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: Electric Shocks!!
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. These...
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Charging Your Hair
Adjust the voltage on a Van der Graaff generator to see how the charges will affect a person's hair.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Static Electricity Thunder and Lightning
An activity where students simulate the creation of thunder and lightning using simple materials, and learn how static electricity can produce sound.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Electric Field Distribution
Adjust the distance between plates in a parallel-plate capacitor in this simulation, and observe the effects on the electric field.
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