This film shows how positive and negative charges are created: defines such basic concepts as insulator, conductor and electric field; and introduces Coulomb’s law, used to measure electrostatic charges. A laboratory demonstration of Faraday’s ice-pail experiment is presented. The film also shows how the principles of electrostatic charges and forces can be used to explain the operation of the Van de Graaff generator.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
312691
Language
English
Subject categories
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Science - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Electric conductors
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Electric fields
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Electric insulators
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Electrostatics
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Science - Experiments
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Science - Study and teaching
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)