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Exploring Electric Charges
| Title | Exploring Electric Charges |
| Description | This activity is designed to walk students through an exploration to with the objectives of: - Understand what types of charges are exchanged in electrostatic interactions. - Explain the process of polarization - Describe the build up of excess charge, and the release of those charges by the process of grounding. - Understand the attraction and repulsion relationships between fundamental charges |
| Subject | Physics |
| Level | High School, Middle School |
| Type | Guided Activity, Lab |
| Duration | 60 minutes |
| Answers Included | No |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | attract, charge, ground, polarization, repel |
| Simulation(s) | Balloons and Static Electricity (HTML5), Electric Field Hockey, John Travoltage (HTML5) |
| Author(s) | Matt Simkins |
| Contact Email | msimkins@pennridge.org |
| School / Organization | Pennridge High School |
| Date submitted | 3/16/17 |
| Date updated | 10/18/18 |
