Module 8: Electrostatics (10 Days)
The purpose of this page.
This page will contain all the information a student may need to study for a module. It may not be necessary to study ALL of the material. The goal is to provide choices for a student that fit their learning style. If a specific resources is to be used, the instructor will make that clear to the students.
Instructional/ Lecture Videos
Charge & Coulomb's Law Part 2 |
Electric Potential Energy |
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Textbook/ Flexbook PagesThere are a number of flexbook pages that are relevant to this unit. I will group them by concept with web links.
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Power PointHere are a number of PPTs that explain the concepts under study.
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Simulations
Balloons & Static ElectricityWhy does a balloon stick to your sweater? Rub a balloon on a sweater, then let go of the balloon and it flies over and sticks to the sweater. View the charges in the sweater, balloons, and the wall.
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Electric Field HockeyPlay hockey with electric charges. Place charges on the ice, then hit start to try to get the puck in the goal. View the electric field. Trace the puck's motion. Make the game harder by placing walls in front of the goal. This is a clone of the popular simulation of the same name marketed by Physics Academic Software and written by Prof. Ruth Chabay of the Dept of Physics at North Carolina State University.
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Charges & FieldsMove point charges around on the playing field and then view the electric field, voltages, equipotential lines, and more. It's colorful, it's dynamic, it's free.
The Rutherford ExperimentThis classic diffraction experiment was conducted in 1911 by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden at the suggestion of Ernest Rutherford.
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