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Building a leaf electroscope

Physics · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

Make a working electroscope from a jar, a nail and aluminium foil, then name the job of each part.

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  1. Charge, and how things become charged
  2. Charge distribution, fields and applications
  3. Where electric charge comes from
  4. The law of electrostatics
  5. Charging by friction
  6. Charging by contact and by induction
  7. Building a leaf electroscope
  8. Charging, discharging and using an electroscope
  9. Electric fields and field patterns
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