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Kersten Physics Teaching Center
Lecture Demonstrations
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Electricity and Magnetism



Electrostatics

Electrophorus

Electroscopes

Kelvin's Water Dropper

Pith Ball Electroscope

Projection Electroscope

Rods, Fur, and Silk with Pivot

Triboelectric Paddles

Van de Graaff Generator



Electric Fields and Potential

CRT Electron Beam Deflection with an Electric Field

Faraday Cage with Electroscopes

Faraday's Ice Pail


Grass Seed Electric Field Lines

Millikan Oil Drop

Nonspherical Conductor

Removable Spherical Conducting Shell



Capacitance


Capacitor Bang

Capacitor Lights Bulb

Capacitor Show and Tell

Dissectible Leyden Jar

Force on a Dielectric

RC Circuit Charging and Discharging

Variable Gap Parallel Plate Capacitor



Resistance

Jacob's Ladder

Resistance of Wire at Low Temperature

Resistor Show and Tell



Electromotive Force and Current


Measure Internal Resistance of a Battery

Thermoelectric Motor



DC Circuits

Batteries and Lamps

Electrical Equivalent of Heat

Galvanometer

RC Circuits



Magnetic Materials

Barkhausen Effect

Ferromagnetic Hysteresis

Meissner Effect Levitation

Paramagnetism of Liquid O2

Superconductor Train



Magnetic Fields and Forces

CRT Electron Beam Deflection with a Magnetic Field

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Force on a Solenoid Core

Forces Between Current-Carrying Wires

Magnetic Deflection of a Current-Carrying Wire

Magnetic Field Around a Wire With a Compass

Magnetic Field Lines for a Bar Magnet

Magnetic Field Lines for Various Current Geometries



Inductance

Induction Coil Arc

Induction Coil Lights Fluorescent Lamp

RL Circuits



Electromagnetic Induction

AC Induction Lights Bulb

DC Induction with Galvanometer

DC Motor

Dissectible Transformer

Eddy Current Damped Pendulum

Eddy Current Pipe

Eddy Current Rolling Cylinder

Electromagnet Spark

Homopolar Generator

Jumping Ring

Magnetic Induction in Loops of Wire


Magnetic Induction Lights Bulb

Motor-Driven AC Generator

Permanent Magnet Through a Coil

Sword in the Stone



AC Circuits

LRC Circuits



Semiconductors and Tubes



Electromagnetic Radiation

Coaxial Cable

Electromagnetic Wave Model

Microwaves

RF Dipole Radiation

Van de Graaff Lights Fluorescent Lamp