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Electrostatics

Charge sticks to adhesive tape
Transfer charge from sphere to sphere
Model of electrostatic voltmeter
Increasing separation of capacitor plates at constant charge
Increasing separation of capacitor plates at constant voltage
Revised since 07/26
No electric field inside tin cans
Van de Graaff generator
Segner wheel with ions
Mirror image force
Confetti
Maypole
Wig
New since 07/24
Cheesecake moulds on Van de Graaff generator
Johnsen-Rahbek effect
Gauss's law 1
Gauss's law 2
Electric field lines
Fishing rod
Thomson scales
Faraday cage
Separating charges
Capacitor drives motor
Separation of charges with water drops
Coulomb's law with torsion balance
Potential lines
Sparks from ball to ball and ball to pointed tip
Revised since 07/26
Electrical repulsion
High-voltage insulator
Christmas baubles
Revised since 07/24
Force on dipole
Water jet in electric field

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