Four Great Static Electricity Interactives

Whether you're a teacher or a learner, these four simulations will help bring understanding and visualization of physics concepts.

Aluminum Can Polarization

The Aluminum Can Polarization Interactive allows learners to visualize the underlying cause for the attraction between a charged and an uncharged object. The uncharged object is an aluminum can at rest on a level surface. The charged object is either a glass rod or a rubber rod. The charged object can be brought near to the uncharged object and the resulting interaction is clearly observed. But more importantly, the response of electrons within the aluminum can is depicted in the animation.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Aluminum-Can-Polarization

Charging

The Charging Interactive allows users to explore charge interactions, the charging of objects by conduction and induction, and the grounding of objects. The Interactive is accompanied by a challenging game as a follow-up activity to the learning experience.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Charging

Name That Charge

The Name That Charge Interactive is a skill building exercise that provides the learner with an interactive self-assessment of electrostatic charging methods. The Interactive presents seven different situations, provides animations of each situation, and asks the learner to identify the type of charge present on the objects as the result of the charging process. 

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Name-That-Charge

Coulomb's Law

The Coulomb/s Law Interactive allows learners to explore the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged objects. The quantity of charge on the objects can be varied by dragging a slider. And the objects can be dragged closer together or further apart. The distance between objects can be measured using a built-in measuring tool.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Coulomb-s-Law

Charge and Charging Concept Builder

The Charge and Charging Concept Builder engages the learner in exploring the manner in which objects become electrostatically charged in terms of protons and electrons. There are 38 total questions that are organized into 16 different Question Groups and spread across three Activities. The three activities include Particle Count, Get Into the Flow, and Analyze This! Activity 1 - Particle Count challenges learners to compare the relative number of protons and electrons for neutral, positively-charged, and negatively-charged objects. In Activity 2 -Get Into the Flow, learners identify how objects beome charged positively or negatively and how they become neutral if previously charged. And in Activity 3 - Analyze This!, learners must apply what they have learned in the first two activities to analyze an electrostatic phenomenon. Question-specific help is provided for each of the 16 situations. The built-in score-keeping makes this Concept Builder a perfect candidate for a classroom activity.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Concept-Builders/Static-Electricity/Charge-And-Charging

Triboelectric Charging Concept Builder

The Triboelectric Charging Concept Builder engages the learner in an investigation of what happens when two objects are rubbed together. The connection between the relative affinity for electrons of two or more materials and the charge that they acquire when rubbed with one another is explored. There are 33 total questions that are organized into 16 different Question Groups and spread across three Activities. The three activities include What's the Charge?, Triboelectric Series, and Rank the Materials. Activity 1 - What's the Charge? challenges learners to predict the type of charge two materials would acquire when rubbed together. In Activity 2 -Triboelectric Series, learners use observations about what happens when an unknown material is rubbed with two or three known materials in order to place the unknown material in the proper area of a triboelectric series. And in Activity 3 - Rank the Materials, learners use observations of charge acquired by three or four materials when rubbed together in order to rank the materials on a triboelectric series. Question-specific help is provided for each of the 16 situations. The built-in score-keeping makes this Concept Builder a perfect candidate for a classroom activity.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Concept-Builders/Static-Electricity/Triboelectric-Charging

Four Great Static Electricity Interactives

Whether you're a teacher or a learner, these four simulations will help bring understanding and visualization of physics concepts.

Aluminum Can Polarization

The Aluminum Can Polarization Interactive allows learners to visualize the underlying cause for the attraction between a charged and an uncharged object. The uncharged object is an aluminum can at rest on a level surface. The charged object is either a glass rod or a rubber rod. The charged object can be brought near to the uncharged object and the resulting interaction is clearly observed. But more importantly, the response of electrons within the aluminum can is depicted in the animation.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Aluminum-Can-Polarization

Charging

The Charging Interactive allows users to explore charge interactions, the charging of objects by conduction and induction, and the grounding of objects. The Interactive is accompanied by a challenging game as a follow-up activity to the learning experience.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Charging

Name That Charge

The Name That Charge Interactive is a skill building exercise that provides the learner with an interactive self-assessment of electrostatic charging methods. The Interactive presents seven different situations, provides animations of each situation, and asks the learner to identify the type of charge present on the objects as the result of the charging process. 

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Name-That-Charge

Coulomb's Law

The Coulomb/s Law Interactive allows learners to explore the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged objects. The quantity of charge on the objects can be varied by dragging a slider. And the objects can be dragged closer together or further apart. The distance between objects can be measured using a built-in measuring tool.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Static-Electricity/Coulomb-s-Law