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Electricity & Magnetism
Support Equipment
5 - 00.00 - Support Equipment used for Electricity and Magnetism
Electrostatics
Producing Static Charge
5A10.10 - Electrostatic Charges
5A10.15 - Triboelectric Series
5A10.19 - Electrostatics - Fluorescent Light & Cat's Fur
5A10.20 - Electrophorus
5A10.35 - Tape - Equal and Opposite Charges
5A10.36 - Equality of Charge - Charge Conservation
Coulomb's Law
5A20.10 - Electrostatics - Rods and Pivots
5A20.20 - Electrostatics - Pith Balls, Balloons
5A20.30 - Van de Graaff - Balloons
5A20.31 - Electro Flyer
5A20.37 - Coulomb's Law Balance - Pasco Model
Electrostatic Meters
5A22.12 - Electroscopes
5A22.93 - Electroscope - FET
Conductors and Insulators
5A30.10 - Electroscope - Wire vs. String
5A30.15 - Conductors & Insulators
Induced Charge
5A40.10 - Electrostatic Spheres
5A40.15 - Induction - Mylar Balloon
5A40.16 - Induction - Charging Electroscope by Induction
5A40.20 - Electrostatics - Cans & Charged Rods
5A40.21 - Electrostatics - Particles & Charged Rods
5A40.24 - Van de Graaff - Bubbles
5A40.30 - Electrostatic 2x4
5A40.36 - Van de Graaff - Ball and Snake
5A40.40 - Electrostatic Deflection - Water Stream
5A40.70 - Kelvin Water Dropper - Relaxation Oscillator
Electrostatic Machines
5A50.10 - Wimshurst Generator
5A50.30 - Van de Graaff Generator
5A50.35 - Fun Fly Stick
5A50.40 - Static Genecon
5A50.52 - Electrostatic Motor
5A50.54 - Electrostatic Motor - Racing Ball
Electric Fields and Potential
Electric Field
5B10.10 - Van de Graaff generator - Hair
5B10.15 - Van de Graaff - Wig and Streamers
5B10.23 - Van de Graaff - Aluminum Foil Rockets
5B10.25 - Van de Graaff - Plates & Peanuts, Felt Bat
5B10.30 - Electrostatic Chimes and Franklin's Bells
5B10.31 - Volta's Hailstorm - Jumping Particles
5B10.33 - Van de Graaff - Cotton Ball
5B10.40 - Electric Field Lines Demo
5B10.45 - Electrorheological Liquid
5B10.58 - Van de Graaff - Fluorescent & Neon Light
5B10.70 - Potential Field Model
Gauss' Law
5B20.10 - Gauss's Law Demo - Faraday's Icebucket
5B20.20 - Butterfly Net
5B20.30 - Faraday's Cage - Electroscope
5B20.35 - Faraday's Cage - Radio
5B20.50 - Electric Field Lines and Flux
Electrostatic Potential
5B30.10 - Charge Density - Balloon
5B30.20 - Zeppelin
5B30.26 - Van de Graaff - Lightening Plate
5B30.35 - Corona Discharge
5B30.40 - Van de Graaff - Candle
5B30.46 - Discharging from a Point
5B30.50 - Electrostatic Pinwheel - Ion Motor
5B30.60 - Smoke Precipitator
5B30.95 - Human Discharge Chain
Capacitance
Capacitors
5C10.10 - Demo Capacitors
5C10.20 - Sliding Capacitors
5C10.31 - Capacitors - Charge vs. Surface Area
5C10.35 - Gang Capacitors / Rotary Capacitors
Dielectric
5C20.10 - Dielectrics
5C20.11 - Capacitors with Dielectrics - Studfinder
5C20.22 - Forces on a Dielectric
5C20.30 - Leyden Jar - Dissectible Capacitor
5C20.51 - Lichtenberg Figures
5C20.60 - Displacement Current
Energy Stored in a Capacitor
5C30.10 - Leyden Jars
5C30.15 - Blow a Capacitor
5C30.20 - Spark a Capacitor
5C30.35 - Capacitor - Lift a Mass
5C30.38 - Capacitor - Charge & Discharge - Genecon Generator
5C30.42 - Capacitive Impedance Demo
5C30.70 - The Effect of AC and DC on an RC Circuit
Resistance
Resistance Characteristics
5D10.10 - Resistor Models and Demos
5D10.15 - Resistors - Characteristics of Tapered Resistors
5D10.16 - Resistors - Characteristics of Pencil Lead Resistors
5D10.20 - Resistance vs. Diameter, Resistance vs. Length
5D10.25 - Conducting Foam and Play-Doh
5D10.30 - Human Resistance
5D10.40 - Resistor Model - Random Walk
5D10.60 - Burn a Resistor
Resistivity and Temperature
5D20.10 - Temperature Dependence of Resistance - Wire Wound Resistors
5D20.20 - Temperature Dependence of Resistance - Iron Wire and Flame
5D20.30 - Temperature Dependence of Resistance - Carbon Resistors
5D20.31 - Stefan's Law - Resistance of Light Bulbs
5D20.50 - Thermistors - Differential Negative Resistance
5D20.60 - Conductivity of Glass
Conduction in Solutions
5D30.10 - Conductivity of Water
5D30.30 - Pickle Light - Electrocute a Pickle
Conduction in Gases
5D40.10 - Jacob's Ladder
5D40.30 - Radioactive Discharge - Ionization
5D40.50 - Neon Bulb Trigger - Avalanche Trigger
5D40.60 - Surface Ionization
Electromotive Force and Current
Plating
5E30.20 - Electroplating Copper
Cells and Batteries
5E40.03 - Batteries - Wet and Dry/Voltaic Pile
5E40.15 - Human Battery
5E40.25 - Lemon Battery
5E40.27 - Potato Clock
5E40.30 - Battery - Avalanche Voltage
5E40.61 - Arcing of Two Electrodes
5E40.70 - Internal Resistance, Maximum Power and Impedance Matching
5E40.75 - Internal Resistance of a Battery
5E40.80 - Fuel Cells
Thermoelectricity
5E50.10 - Thermocouples
5E50.19 - Seebeck Effect - Thermoelectricity
5E50.30 - Thermoelectric Magnet
5E50.60 - Thermoelectric Cooler/Peltier Apparatus
Piezoelectricity
5E60.12 - Piezoelectric Crystal Demo
DC Circuits
Ohm's Law
5F10.10 - Ohm's Law
Power and Energy
5F15.10 - Electrical Equivalent of Heat
5F15.14 - Light Bulbs - Incandescent vs. Compact Fluorescent vs. LED
5F15.15 - Household Electronics, Circuits, Insulators, & Conductors
5F15.20 - Hot Dog Cooker
5F15.33 - Fuse Wire
Circuit Analysis
5F20.10 - Kirchhoff's Law
5F20.30 - Potentiometer
5F20.40 - Wheatstone Bridge
5F20.50 - Series and Parallel Light Bulbs
5F20.55 - Series and Parallel Resistors
5F20.65 - Series and Parallel Capacitors
5F20.85 - Frequency in Parallel and Series Circuits
RC Circuits
5F30.10 - Capacitor - Charge & Discharge
5F30.20 - R-C Time Constants
5F30.60 - Relaxation Oscillators - Neon Bulb, Doorbell, and Strobe Lights
Magnetic Materials
Magnets
5G10.10 - Magnets
5G10.11 - Refrigerator Magnets & Floppy Disks
5G10.15 - Lodestone
5G10.18 - Money and Magnets
5G10.20 - Break a Magnet
5G10.55 - Magnetic Linear Accelerator - Gauss Rifle
Magnet Domains and Magnetization
5G20.10 - Barkhausen Effect
5G20.21 - Magnetic Domain Apparatus
5G20.30 - Overhead Magnetic Domain Model
5G20.47 - Amperes Ants
5G20.50 - Iron Rod and Hammer
5G20.55 - Permalloy Rods
5G20.70 - Electromagnet
5G20.72b - Electromagnet - AC
5G20.73 - Electromagnetic Levitator - Suspended Globe
5G20.74 - Magnetic Flux
Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism
5G30.10 - Paramagnetic, Diamagnetic, & Ferromagnetic Demos
5G30.20 - Paramagnetism of Liquid Oxygen
5G30.35 - Diamagnetic Grape
5G30.40 - Diamagnetic Water
5G30.45 - Four and Nine Magnet Diamagnetic Levitator
5G30.50 - Diamagnetic Graphite
5G30.55 - Diamagnetic Bismuth
Hysteresis
5G40.10 - Hysteresis
Temperature and Magnetism
5G50.10 - Curie Point of Permanent Magnets
5G50.50 - Superconductors - Meissner Effect
Magnetic Fields and Forces
Magnetic Fields
5H10.11 - Compass
5H10.15 - Dip Needle
5H10.20 - Oersted's Effect
5H10.30 - Magnet and Iron Filings
5H10.31 - Ferromagnetic Fluids
5H10.35 - Magnetorheological Fluids
5H10.55 - Gaussmeters
5H10.59 - Zero Gauss Chamber
5H10.61 - Magnetic Shielding
Fields and Currents
5H15.10 - Overhead Electromagnets
5H15.46 - Helmholtz Coils
Forces on Magnets
5H20.10 - Forces on Magnets - Torque
5H20.20 - Levitating Magnetic Disks
5H20.22 - Levitron (TM) - Levitation Using Permanent Magnets
5H20.25 - Revolution
5H20.40 - Marble Magnets - Dipole-Dipole Interaction
Magnets / Electromagnet Interaction
5H25.10 - Coil & Compass, Rods, Gaussmeter, & Tangent Galvanometer
5H25.20 - Jumping Magnets
5H25.25 - Magnetic Suction
5H25.30 - Solenoid Switches
Force on Moving Charges
5H30.05 - e/m - TV and Magnet
5H30.10 - E - Beam Deflection - Cathode Ray Tubes
5H30.15 - Electrostatic Deflection of Electron Beam
5H30.20 - e/m - Electromagnetic Deflection of Electron Beam - Small
5H30.21 - e/m - Electromagnetic Deflection of Free Electron Beam
5H30.25 - Planetterella - Van Allen Radiation Belts
5H30.35 - Rotating Plasma - DC Arc
5H30.41 - Swirling Plasma - de la Rive Tube
5H30.50 - Magnetohydrodynamic Motor - Ion Motor
5H30.56 - Faraday's Engine
Force on Current in Wires
5H40.10 - Jumping Wires
5H40.23 - Lamp Filaments, Magnet & AC/DC
5H40.25 - Dancing Slinky
5H40.30 - Jumping Wires - Magnet and Wire
5H40.37 - Take Apart Speaker
5H40.38 - Lorentz Force - Jumping Wire With a Twist
5H40.40 - Current Balance
5H40.53 - Homopolar Motor
5H40.71 - Ampere's Motor - Railgun
5H40.75 - Faraday Train
Torques on Coils
5H50.10 - Homemade Galvanometer
Inductance
Self Inductance
5J10.10 - Demo Inductors
5J10.30 - Arcing of an Inductive Circuit
LR Circuits
5J20.10 - L-R Time Constants
5J20.20 - Inductor Demo
RLC Circuits - DC
5J30.10 - Ringing Circuit
Electromagnetic Induction
Induced Currents and Forces
5K10.10 - Sliding Rail
5K10.16 - Tape Heads
5K10.20 - Faraday's Laws - Induced Currents
5K10.25 - Electromagnetic Induction Demo - Coil and Light Bulb with Magnets
5K10.30 - Induced Currents using Two Coils
5K10.34 - Metal Detector
5K10.48 - Current Coupled Pendula
5K10.51 - Induced Currents using Two Coils - Audio Transformer
5K10.60 - Flip Coil
5K10.65 - Earth Inductor - Jumping Rope
5K10.82 - Homopolar Motor as a Generator
Eddy Currents
5K20.10 - Magnetic and Electromagnetic Damping
5K20.23 - Lenz's Law - Zig's Tube
5K20.24 - Lenz's Law - Plates and Magnets
5K20.25 - Lenz's Law - Tubes and Magnets
5K20.26 - Lenz's Law - Repulsion Rings
5K20.30 - Lenz's Law - Jumping Rings
5K20.33 - Lenz's Law - Capacitive Ring
5K20.36 - Induction Heating - Boil Water
5K20.39 - Eddy Current Levitator
5K20.40 - Eddy Current Levitator - Spinning Disk
5K20.42 - Lenz's Law - Pie Tin, Water, Plate, and Magnet
5K20.43 - Vertical Eddy Current Levitator
5K20.57 - Rotating Copper & Aluminum Disks
5K20.60 - Eddy Currents - Barlow's Wheel
Transformers
5K30.20 - Transformer Demo
5K30.30 - Transformer - Coil and Light Bulb
5K30.51 - Induced EMF
Motors and Generators
5K40.10 - DC Motors
5K40.11 - Antique "Walking Beam" Motor
5K40.35 - AC Motors
5K40.40 - St. Louis Motor - Generator
5K40.45 - Motor - Generator Pairs
5K40.49a - Mystery Top
5K40.49b - Space Circles - Space Balls
5K40.49c - Space Wheel
5K40.70 - Motor - Back EMF
5K40.80 - Hand Crank Generators - Genecon
5K40.81 - Antique Hand Crank Generator
5K40.83 - Bicycle Generator
5K40.85 - Energy Conversion Demos
5K40.90 - Generators - Water and Wind Generators or Turbines
AC Circuits
Impedance
5L10.10 - Inductive Choke
5L10.70 - Resistor - Resistor Circuits
RLC Circuits - AC
5L20.13 - L-R, R-C, Phase Shift Demo
5L20.21 - Resonance Circuits
5L20.23 - RLC Resonance - Iron and Brass Cores
Filters and Rectifiers
5L30.10 - Bridge Rectifiers
5L30.12 - Half-Wave, Full-Wave Rectifiers
5L30.20 - Blinky Whirligig - AC Made Visible
5L30.25 - DC vs. AC Voltages and the Meaning of Root Mean Square
5L30.30 - Circuit Filters
5L30.36 - The Sound Color Organ
9B50.30 - Selenium Rectifiers
Semiconductors and Tubes
Semiconductors
5M10.10 - Hall Effect
5M10.45 - Light Sensitive Resistors - Negative Feedback
5M10.50 - Principles of a Diode
5M10.51 - T vs. V - Semiconductors
5M10.53 - Burn or Blow a Diode
5M10.55 - LED's
5M10.56 - Zener Diodes
5M10.57 - Tunnel Diodes
5M10.60 - Diode PN Junction - Edison Effect
5M10.61 - P-N Junctions - Gravitational Model
5M10.65 - Transistors
5M10.95 - Operational Amplifiers - (Op-amps)
Tubes
5M20.20 - Geissler Tubes and Special Discharge Tubes
Electromagnetic Radiation
Transmission Lines and Antennas
5N10.28 - Coaxial Cable - Delay Line
5N10.50 - Lecher Wires
5N10.55 - Electromagnetic Radiation - Microwave
5N10.57 - Electromagnetic Radiation - Microwave Oven - Standing Waves
5N10.60 - Electromagnetic Radiation - Radio Transmitter
5N10.65 - Antennas
5N10.66 - Radios
5N10.67 - Crystal Radio Set
5N10.70 - Microwave Waveguides
5N10.80 - Propagation of an Electromagnetic Wave
Tesla Coil
5N20.25 - Tesla Coil - Plasma
5N20.40 - Tesla Coil
5N20.41 - Singing Tesla Coil - Plasma Speaker
5N20.80 - Tesla Coil and Pinwheel - Ion Motor
Electromagnetic Spectrum
5N30.00 - Electromagnetic Spectrum
5N30.10 - Glass, Water, & CS2 Prisms
5N30.40 - Infrared Spectrum
5N30.45 - Infrared Viewer & I. R. Projector
5N30.50 - Hearing Infrared
5N30.60 - Ultraviolet Spectrum
9B40.20 - Radios and Radio Spectrum