Safe & Simple Electrical Experiments
Table of Contents:
- STATIC ELECTRICITY
- 1] Charge yourself
- 2] Charge a balloon
- 3] Charge a piece of paper
- 4] Tricks with a comb
- 5] Drawing sparks from a dry newspaper
- 6] Fill the stocking
- 7] Making water wiggle
- 8] The obedient ping pong ball
- 9] How to break up a friendship between 2 balloons
- 10] Bringing 2 balloons back together again
- 11] Like charges repel
- 12] Building and using a leaf electroscope
- 13] Discharging your electroscope by radiation or ionization
- 14] Building an electrophorous
- 15] Using the electrophorous
- 16] Shielding your electroscope
- 17] The Leyden jar
- 18] Building a proof plane
- 19] Experiment with charged grains
- 20] The swinging grain
- 21] Making a static electricity pendulum
- 22] making a paper spider
- 23] A electrostatic palm tree
- 24] Making a simple electrostatic charge detector
- 25] The electrostatic merry-go-round
- 26] The free wheeling straw
- 27] The magic finger
- 28] Electrostatic jumping beans
- 29] A hair-raising experiment
- 30] Plaster your wall with cards
- 31] Picking up slat electrostatically
- 32] Hindu thread trick
- 33] Dancing Soap bubble
- 34] The charged tape
- 35] Surprise the cat
- 36] Cleaning your records electrostatically
- 37] Rub for your light
- 38] How to charge your friends to 10,000 volts
- MAGNETISM
- 39] How to read your compass
- 40] What will a magnet attract?
- 41] Magnetic lines
- 42] Demonstrating magnetic lines of force with a compass
- 43] How to show a magnetic field in 3-D
- 44] Making a magnet
- 45] Like poles repel and unlike poles attract
- 46] Magnetism exceeds gravity
- 47] Which magnet is stronger?
- 48] Where is the magnet the strongest?
- 49] Induced and residual magnetism
- 50] Proving the theory of magnetism
- 51] Heat destroys magnetism
- 52] Making a floating compass
- 53] A different kind of compass
- 54] Magnetic poles can be anywhere
- 55] The Earth as a magnet
- 56] Magnetic dip or inclination
- 57] Magnetism from the Earth's field
- 58] Proving a theory
- 59] Which one is magnetized?
- 60] Rescuing the paper clip
- 61] Magnetic separation
- 62] How to tell time with a compass
- 63] Making floating magnets
- 64] How steady are you?
- 65] Building a simple motor
- 66] Building an eddy current motor
- 67] Can magnetism be shielded by nonmagnetic materials?
- 68] Magnetic shielding
- 69] Making magnet boats
- 70] Magnetic pick-up sticks
- CURRENT ELECTRICITY AND ELECTROMAGNETISM
- 71] How to make a current detector
- 72] Making your own voltaic pile
- 73] Getting electricity from a lemon
- 74] Electricity can produce heat and light
- 75] Electrochemistry
- 76] Thermoelectricity
- 77] Potato polarity indicator
- 78] Electrolysis of water
- 79] The worms turns
- 80] Let's make a fuse
- 81] Relating electricity with magnetism (electromagnetism)
- 82] Magnetic field around a current carrying conductor
- 83] Showing the magnetic field in another way
- 84] A wire picks up iron filings
- 85] Checking the magnetic polarity of a solenoid
- 86] Making an electromagnet
- 87] How to show an electromagnetic field in 3-D
- 88] How to magnetize your screwdriver
- 89] Unfriendly paper clips
- 90] The coil moves
- 91] Magnetism produces electricity
- 92] Let's make a transformer
- 93] How to make a lamp assembly
- 94] Controlling your circuit
- 95] The magic driver
- 96] How to make a switch
- 97] Building a conductivity tester
- 98] Series and parallel circuits
- 99] Making a telegraph sounder and telegraph system
- 100] How to make a buzzer and relay
- 101] Four games
