Curated OER
Electroscope
Students examine what an electroscope is and who invented it. In this electrical lesson students build their own Emergency Radiation detector Electroscope.
Curated OER
Types of Circuits and Ohm's Law
In this circuits instructional activity, learners compare and contrast series and parallel circuits. Students learn about Ohm's Law and define current, voltage, and resistance. This instructional activity has 6 matching, 18 fill in the...
Curated OER
Types of Circuits and Ohm's Law
In this circuits an Ohm's Law worksheet, students read about the differences between series and parallel circuits. They are given Ohm's Law and the definitions of current, voltage and resistance. Students match variables with their...
Curated OER
Electromagnets: Winding Things Up!
High schoolers explore solenoids and electromagnets. After building an electromagnet, students use a TI Graphing calculator, a CBL 2 interface and a magnetic field sensor to measure the strength of a magnetic field. They create a graph...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Static Electricity: Electric Force: Coulomb's Law
This informative tutorial on Coulomb's Law and electric force in physics features a definition as well as formulas, diagrams, and learning exercises.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Charge and Coulomb's Law
Learning about charge and forces of attraction will be keys to understanding electrostatics and the basis of this learning unit. Developing a greater understanding of charge and the charge model is necessary to understanding electricity.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Electrostatics
This web-based activity takes students through a series of pages in which they find out about the effects charged particles have on one another, discover how Coulomb's force works, and see some real-world examples. Multiple-choice and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Coulomb's Law and Electric Force Review
Review how an electric force behaves between like or opposite charges, and its dependence on separation distance and charge magnitude. Compare the electric force and gravitational force.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb invented a device, dubbed the torsion balance, that allowed him to measure very small charges and experimentally estimate the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged bodies. The data he obtained...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
A short biography about Charles Coulomb, known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Physics: Coulomb's Law
Here is a presentation of Coulomb's Law and the electric field potential formula, with example problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Coulomb's Law
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate how electric force, charge, and distance all relate to each other in Coulomb's Law. Presents Coulomb's Law, the SI unit for charge, the...
Other
Brockport High School Science Department: Coulomb's Law
A complete lab where a student verifies the force versus distance relationship of Coulomb's Law.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Qualitative Coulomb's Law Lesson
A detailed lesson plan for helping learners to qualitatively experience the force versus distance relationship of Coulomb's law.
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: 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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Coulomb's Law
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how the placement of charges leads to an electric field and electric potential patterns in nearby space using our interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also available....
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Electric Force
Need to review electric force? This collection of eight video lectures focuses on electric force. Lectures vary in length giving examples of problems to help with the understanding of electric force. Lectures are from a physics course...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Coulomb's Law
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides information about Coulomb's law.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Forces in Action
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children apply their knowledge of a variety of forces to contexts in which objects are stationary because forces on them are balanced. Children learn about the changes in motion which occur...
Other
Easyphysics: Chapter 11 Electric Forces
Learners investigate electric forces. Some topics examined are conductors, Coulomb?s law, and net electrical charge. The resource includes example problems with solutions and a chapter quiz.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 2: Electrostatics
In this unit students take a deeper look into charges beyond the simplified 'opposites attract." Students learn to calculate those attractive and repulsive forces and to show how invisible fields are responsible for them.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
Spanish-language site lets students discover the life and work of this physicist and engineer, who is known for his studies of electric charges.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Electrostatics
Use a series of interactive models and games to explore electrostatics. Learn about the effects positive and negative charges have on one another, and investigate these effects further through games.