{"id":4166,"date":"2015-06-16T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:44","slug":"wimshurst-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/wimshurst-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimshurst Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Wimshurst-.jpg\" alt=\"Wimshurst Generator Demo Picture\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Wimshurst-_-access..jpg\" alt=\"Wimshurst Generator Demo Picture\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Hand-cranked charge separator. Generate large sparks for<br \/>\nentertainment or for use in various electrostatic experiments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Use generator to charge capacitor plates or Leyden Jar. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dip conductive pith ball in between parallel plate capacitor<br \/>\nhooked to W-generator; crank W-generator; pith ball bounces back and forth<br \/>\nbetween plates. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Located in L01; section A2, covered in plastic bag.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand-cranked charge separator. Generate large sparks for entertainment or for use in various electrostatic experiments. Use generator to charge capacitor plates or Leyden Jar. Dip conductive pith ball in between parallel plate capacitor hooked to W-generator; crank W-generator; pith ball bounces back and forth between plates. Located in L01; section A2, covered in plastic bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,44,5],"tags":[21,258,537],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166"}],"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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}