Description
Uses probes and electroconductive paper to map the electric fields around different shapes of electrode.
Outcomes:
- Develop an understanding of electrical potential.
 - Map and develop an understanding of equipotentials and how they relate to field lines.
 
Links to Stage 6 Physics Syllabus Content
PH11-11/Electrostatics:
- Using the electric field lines representation, model qualitatively the direction and strength of electric fields produced by:
- simple point charges
 - pairs of charges
 - dipoles
 - parallel charged plates.
 
 
- Analyse the effects of a moving charge in an electric field, in order to relate potential energy, work and equipotential lines, by applying: (ACSPH105)
 
- PH12-13/Charged Particles, Conductors and Electric and Magnetic Fields:
 - Investigate and quantitatively derive and analyse the interaction between charged particles and uniform electric fields, including: (ACSPH083)聽
- Electric field between parallel charged plates