56 – Electric Charge and Electric Field

56.03  Attract paper bits with charged rod

56.06  Electrostatically charged rods

56.09  Charge pith balls

56.12  Electroscope

56.15  Insulator versus conductor

56.18  Induced charging of metal spheres

56.21  Moving a board by induction

56.24  Coulomb’s apparatus

56.27  Electric field patterns

56.30  Electrostatic pinwheel

56.32  Wimshurst machines Video available.


Gauss’ Law

56.33  Charge pith balls inside and outside of metal cylinder

56.36  Charge string inside and outside of wire cage

56.39  Electrostatic pinwheel in cage

56.42  Shielded versus unshielded cable


Van de Graaff Generator

56.45  Sparks Video available.

56.48  Charged hair Video available.

56.51  Flying pie tins Video available.

56.54  Lightning rod

56.57  Fluorescent tube Video available.

56.60  Ping pong ball between plates

56.63  Polarity of Van de Graaff generator

Video available.A video of this demonstrations is available (a link is on its page).