Curated Video
Applications and Hazards of Static Electricity
This video is a lecture on the uses and hazards of static electricity, discussing the different phenomena associated with electrostatic charging. The video then goes on to explore various applications of electrostatic charges, such as...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Elementary Charge
Paul Andersen explains how electric charge is quantized and how the smallest unit of charge is 1.6x10^-19 C, or the elementary charge. [4:51]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Physics Videos: Giant Tesla Coil in Action
See a larger than life Tesla coil built in Oklahoma. [3:02]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Ap Physics: Electric Charge
Paul Andersen introduces electric charges. The amount of charge in a system is conserved but individual charges can move through a conductor as current. [4:19]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Ap Physics: Positive & Negative Charge
Mr. Andersen illustrates and explains how all objects contain positive and negative charge. [5:24]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Physics: Conservation of Electric Charge
In this video, Paul Andersen explains how the conservation of charge applies to objects in a system. When a charged object induces charge or conducts charge to a neutral object, the net total of charge will not change. [6:07]
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #25: Electric Charge
Moving on to the unit on the Physics of Electricity, it's time to talk about charge. What is charge? Are there positive and negative charges? What do those things mean? In this video episode, Shini talks about electrostatic forces,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Electricity
A video and a short quiz on electricity, covering static electricity, lightning, and energy generated from electricity. [3:20]
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #26: Electric Fields
As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. Electric fields may seem complicated, but they're really fascinating and a crucial part of physics. In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini chats about...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electric Charge, Field, and Potential: Electric Field
We can think of the forces between charges as something that comes from a property of space. That property is called the electric field. [13:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrostatic Telegraphs (Case Study)
A study of static electricity including the contributions from Thales, George Louis Le Sage, Alessandro Volta, Benjamin Franklin.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Metallic Bonding: Lesson 2
This lesson will define a metallic bond and illustrate several "metallic" properties due to this arrangement of electrons. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Metallic Bonding."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrostatics: Discovery of Triboelectric Effect
Our ancestors noticed that when amber was rubbed against fur it attracted small objects. Why is this? [0:52]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrostatics: Pith Ball Electroscope
A primitive device for measuring electrostatic force. [0:39]