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)
- Electric field between parallel charged plates
