Name: Faraday Ice Pail

Category: Electricity and Magnetism

Subcategory: Electric Fields and Potential

Classes: PHYS 102/106, PHYS 309

Comments: Place a charge on the sphere. Touch the inside of the pail with the proof plane. Touch the plane to the Pasco Electrometer and show no charge is present. Now touch the outside of the pail and then the electrometer. The meter on the overhead will deflect and hold the charge.

Equipment:

Faraday ice bucket
Electrometer
Rod
Fur

Location:

 

108B I1
108B I1

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