Thursday 15 December 2022

Electrostatics


 Electrostatics - there is nothing like a Wimshurst machine to demonstrate electrostatics: hand powered and can be done very slowly - does all the tricks of a Van de Graaff Generator and watch the gold leaf electroscopes that are within  a few metres respond

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