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Exploring Electric Charges
Title
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Exploring Electric Charges |
Description
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This activity is designed to walk students through an exploration to with the objectives of:
- Understand what types of charges are exchanged in electrostatic interactions.
- Explain the process of polarization
- Describe the build up of excess charge, and the release of those charges by the process of grounding.
- Understand the attraction and repulsion relationships between fundamental charges |
Subject
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Physics |
Level
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High School, Middle School |
Type
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Guided Activity, Lab |
Duration
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60 minutes |
Answers Included
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No |
Language
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English |
Keywords
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attract, charge, ground, polarization, repel |
Simulation(s)
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Balloons and Static Electricity (HTML5), Electric Field Hockey, John Travoltage (HTML5) |
Author(s)
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Matt Simkins |
Contact Email
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msimkins@pennridge.org |
School / Organization
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Pennridge High School |
Date submitted
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3/16/17 |
Date updated
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10/18/18 |