| Experiment A1 |
Magic Wand and Boat Races |
| To show how static electricity is everywhere around us. To see how a charge can either attract (move toward) or repel (move away from), and to understand how some materials can be charged. |
| Experiment A2 |
Electroscopes |
| To show how static electricity is everywhere around us. To see how a charge can either attract (move toward) or repel (move away from), and how things can be charged using different materials. |
| Experiment A3 |
A Versorium |
| To show how static electricity is everywhere around us. To see how a charge can either attract (move toward) or repel (move away from), and how things can be charged using different materials. |
| Experiment A4 |
Electric Golf |
| To show how static electricity is everywhere around us. To see how a charge can either attract (move toward) or repel (move away from), and how things can be charged using different materials. |
| Experiment A5 |
Balloons and Snakes |
| To show how static electricity is everywhere around us. To see how a charge can either attract (move toward) or repel (move away from), and how things can be charged using different materials. |
| Experiment B1 |
Batteries and Cells |
| To demonstrate an electrochemical effect by generating an electric current using a chemical reaction between dissimilar or atomically different metals. From a simple galvanic cell to an array of cells, called a battery, the group is introduced to storage cells and to using a multimeter to make measurements and comparisons. |
| Experiment B2 |
Electroplating |
| To engage the group in an experiment that demonstrates the conversion of electrical energy into electrochemical energy. To gain an understanding that electrical energy causes chemical reactions and learn about chemical reactions' ability to transfer electrical energy. |
| Experiment B3 |
Leyden Jar |
| To discover how the original concept of storing a static charge became the Leyden jar, and how it evolved into the modern capacitor. To explore some terms that describe electrostatic activity and to gain an appreciation of fields and how a capacitor is different from a battery.
To discover terms such as plates and dielectrics. |
| Experiment B4 |
Capacitors |
| To discover how the original concept of storing a static charge became the Leyden jar, and how it evolved into the modern capacitor. To explore some terms that describe electrostatic activity and to gain an appreciation of fields and how a capacitor is different from a battery.
To discover terms such as plates and dielectrics and how they relate to capacitors. |
