{"id":3636,"date":"2015-06-16T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/2015\/06\/16\/electroscope\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:54","slug":"electroscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/electroscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Electroscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/electroscope.jpg\" alt=\"Electroscope demo photo 2\" width=\"390\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Purpose: Study the nature of electric charge in a qualitative<br \/>\nfashion. <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Charging a rod: to create a positivley charged rod rub glass with silk; to create a negatively charged rod rub teflon with fake fur (the blue stuff).<\/li>\n<li>To determine the conductivity of an object: Charge the electroscope, then touch the electroscope top (metal sphere) with the object. If the object is an insulator the electroscope will not respond to the touch.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Located in L01<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Purpose: Study the nature of electric charge in a qualitative fashion. Charging a rod: to create a positivley charged rod rub glass with silk; to create a negatively charged rod rub teflon with fake fur (the blue stuff). To determine the conductivity of an object: Charge the electroscope, then touch the electroscope top (metal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/electroscope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electroscope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[143,159,220,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}