Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Direction of Force in Electric Fields
Explore the direction of an electric force between charged objects.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Electricity: The Mouse Cheese Analogy
This page uses a mouse and cheese analogy to show the relationships involved in electricity through currents and charges. Among the topics covered by the analogy are voltage, resistance and electromagnetism.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Electric Potential Energy and Type of Charge
Compare potential energy of oppositely or similarly charged particles.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Charge Causing Electric Field
Determine the electric field at point B when when you know the electric field at point A.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Electric Field From Two Charges
Determine the net voltage from two charges.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Direction and Strength of Force in Electric Fields
Explore the strength of force between charged objects.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Conversion of Electric Potential Energy
Explore the conversion of electric potential energy to thermal energy.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Electric Field Simple
Determine the electric field at a point in the vicinity of a charge.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Electric Field in a Line
Determine the electric field at point on a line based on the values and location of two charges.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Smartgraphs: Visualizing Electric Fields and Forces
Explore how electric fields relate to forces on charged objects.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Torsion Balance 1785
Read about Charles Augustin de Coulomb, who didn't invent the torsion balance, but was the first to discover it could be used to measure electrical charge- the first device capable of such a feat.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric in a Line
Students must find the net force on one of the charges in a line of charges.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Static Electricity: Lesson 3: Coulomb's Law
Pay close attention to the three variables between two charged objects, Coulomb's Law is the quantitative expression of these variables. Understand the purpose of the law and extend the understanding through Coulomb's Law Interactive...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Physics: Electric Fields and Potentials
Defines electric potential, field lines, and equipotential lines. Contains example problems and formulas for solving.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Static Electricity Quiz
Take an interactive, multiple choice quiz over static electricity. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
Miami University
The Atoms Family: Static Electricity
This site contains a simple experiment that you can do at home that explains static electricity.
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.
University of Kentucky
Elecroscope Lab
This site is actually a lab from the University of Kentucky Electrical Engineering Department. It is an excellent experiment that can be done at the high school level.
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....
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.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Electric Field: What Is Wrong?
What's wrong with this model? Students expect simulations to show factual science concepts, but these particular simulations are intentionally built incorrectly. The objective is to find where the physics concerning electric fields is...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Current Electricity
Four complete lessons on current electricity in the study of physics. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension checks.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Forces on Charged Objects
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn which subatomic particles contribute to static electricity, and determine the charge of an object based on what particles it has gained or lost.
Physics4kids
Physics4kids: Electricity and Magnetism: Magnets
Here is the site to help you learn all about magnetism and magnets! Find out what a magnet is and how it works. Click for additional details on charges, conductors, magnetic fields, currents, resistance as well as the Laws of Faraday and...
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