Columbia University Physics Lecture Demonstrations


Electricity and Magnetism

5A - ELECTROSTATICS

10. Producing Static Charge

5A10.1 Rods, Fur, Silk, and Electroscope 5A10.2 Electrophorus

20. Coulomb's Law

5A20.1 Suspended Conducting Rod 5A20.2 Pith Balls

40. Induced Charge

5A40.1 Pith Ball and Charged Rod 5A40.2 Charging an Electroscope by Induction 5A40.3 Deflection of Water Stream 5A40.4 Kelvin Water Dropper

50. Electrostatic Machines

5A10.10 Wimshurst Machine 5A50.30 Van de Graaff Generator