Electrostatic Kit

The Electrostatic Kit is designed for basic physics experiments and demonstrations covering a wide range of electrostatic principles, including charge detection, charging by induction and contact, electrostatic attraction and repulsion, and surface charge distribution. The kit provides students with practical components for exploring the behavior and interaction of electric charges. It can also be used for demonstrations involving conductors, condensers, electroscopes, and electrophorus principles. Designed and manufactured by Atico Export to meet the practical demands of modern laboratories.

Kit Includes

• 1 Gold Leaf Electroscope with top plate and hook electrode.
• 4 Metallised Polystyrene Spheres.
• 1 Reel of Very Fine Nylon Thread.
• 1 Cellulose Acetate Strip.
• 1 Polythene Strip.
• 1 Wire Stirrup for Suspending Strips.
• 1 Rubber Cloth.
• 1 Wire Hook with an Insulating Handle.
• 1 Electrophorus Plate with an Insulating Handle.
• 1 Proof Plane.
• 2 Polythene Square Plates.
• 2 Aluminium Calorimeters.

• The metallised polystyrene spheres can be suspended on fine nylon threads to demonstrate how hollow conductors can be charged by wiping, using charged strips, or by induction while holding the strip near and earthing the sphere.
• Repulsion and attraction between similar and opposite charges can be demonstrated by suspending two spheres close together or by suspending a charged strip in the supplied stirrup.
• The polythene and cellulose acetate strips can be rubbed with the rubber cloth to produce opposite charges.
• The electrophorus plate can be used as a condenser plate or as an electrophorus disc together with the square polythene plates.
• The proof plane can be used to determine the presence and distribution of charge on conductors.
• The hook can be removed from the electroscope after charging, allowing the electroscope to be used as a sensitive low-capacity indicator in radioactivity experiments.
• Radioactive specimens can be placed beneath the gold leaf, and the time required for the leaf to discharge can be measured between marked intervals for different materials.

Additional

• A pack of gold leaf can be included as an optional extra.