PhET balloons and static electricity

Topics

• Static Electricity
• Electric Charges
• Electric Force

Description

Grab a balloon to explore concepts of static electricity such as charge transfer, attraction, repulsion, and induced charge.

Sample Learning Goals

• Describe and draw models for common static electricity concepts (transfer of charge, induction, attraction, repulsion, and grounding)
• Make predictions about force at a distance for various configurations of charge

This document aligns an introductory or general chemistry curriculum with 47 PhET sims that can help teach various topics throughout the course. The topics and sub-topics are given for each sim, an sims are noted as "primary" (directly addressing the topic) or "supplemental" (supporting additional information for the topic). You can use this alignment as a reference guide when teaching with a few new sims each semester, or you can use them all at once!

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