DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
5A22.00 | Electrostatic Meters | | |
5A22.10 | Braun electroscope | PIRA 500 | |
5A22.10 | Braun electrostatic voltmeter | Ea-3 | A well balanced needle measures voltages to a few KV. |
5A22.10 | large Braun electroscope | 29-1.1 | Build this Braun electroscope with a 2' vane. Picture, Diagram. |
5A22.10 | the Leybold Braun electroscope | E-1f | Show the Leybold Braun electroscope with some other electrostatics apparatus. |
5A22.12 | electroscopes and electrometers | E-4 | The Braun electrostatic voltmeter and Zeleny oscillating-leaf electroscope are described and pictured. |
5A22.22 | electroscopes | E-1a | Four types of electroscopes are pictured. |
5A22.25 | soft drink can electroscope | PIRA 1000 | |
5A22.25 | simpler soft-drink-can electroscope | TPT 28(9),620 | The tab of the soft drink can supports the electroscope leaves in this simple version. |
5A22.26 | leaf electrometer | AJP 40(12),1870 | Modify a leaf electroscope so it discriminates polarity of charge. |
5A22.30 | gold leaf electroscope | PIRA 500 | |
5A22.30 | gold leaf electroscope | Ea-2 | A gold leaf electroscope is projected with a point source. |
5A22.30 | projection electroscopes | E-3 | Lantern and shadow projecting a gold leaf electroscope, make your own electroscope. |
5A22.41 | vibrating reed electrometer | AJP 36(8),752 | Circuit diagram for a vibrating reed electrometer. Ten demonstrations using the device are listed. |
5A22.45 | oscillating electroscope | AJP 46(2),190 | An insulated indicating wire is charged by corona and rises until it touches a ground, then the cycle repeats. |
5A22.50 | Kelvin electrostatic voltmeter | PIRA 1000 | |
5A22.50 | Kelvin electrostatic voltmeter | Ea-4 | A rotating vane electrostatic voltmeter. |
5A22.51 | electrostatic voltmeter | 29-3.3 | Measure voltage with a rotor and vane electrostatic voltmeter. Picture, Construction details in appendix, p.1320. |
5A22.60 | condensing electroscope | E-71 | Charges
too small to be detected by an electroscope can be detected with the addition
of a variable capacitor. Directions and a drawing. |
5A22.65 | electrometer with concentric cap. | AJP 33(4),340 | Concentric capacitors are mounted on an electrometer with the outer grounded. Insert samples in the inner to measure charge. |
5A22.70 | electrometer | PIRA 1000 | |
5A22.70 | Pasco equipment | E-1d | A Pasco electrometer along with the whole kit of Pasco accessories. |
5A22.71 | Pasco projection meter | E-1e | A remote projection meter for the Pasco electrometer. |
5A22.80 | electric field mill | PIRA 1000 | |
5A22.80 | electric field mill | Ed-5 | Contains short explanation of an instrument used to measure the electric field. |
5A22.81 | simple field mill | AJP 43(11),942 | A circuit used in a simple field mill. |
5A22.90 | electroscope on a diode tube | 29-1.7 | An aluminum foil electroscope attached to the plate of a rectifier diode tube is discharged when the power is turned on. |
5A22.91 | triode electroscope relay | AJP 28(7),679 | An
antenna is hooked to a grid of a triode tube that controls a relay turning
on a light bulb. Charged rods brought close to the antenna turn the light
on or off. |
5A22.95 | negative charge detector | E-1k | The neon light goes out in a triode circuit when negative charge is brought close to a wire connected to the grid. |