College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
5B20.20 - Butterfly Net
Charge the butterfly net with one of the charging rods. With the small paddles show that the charge is on the outside of the butterfly net and not on the inside. Using one of the strings connected to the inside of the net, turn the net inside out and show once again the charge is still on the outside.
- Thomas B. Greenslade Jr., "Apparatus Named After Our Academic Ancestors - VI", TPT, Vol. 62, #4, April 2024, p. 259.
- Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Faraday's Bag (Photo)", AJP, Vol. 70, # 12, Dec. 2002, p. 1215. (Reprinted AJP, Vol. 72, # 1, Jan. 2004, p. 75.)
- Ea-18, 19, 21: Freier and Anderson, A Demonstration Handbook for Physics.
- John Henry Pepper, "Faraday's Experiment with the Conical Muslin Bag", Cyclopadic Science Simplified, 1901, p. 232.
- The Queen Catalogues Vol. II, Catalogue of Physical Instruments, p. 76.
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