{"id":6604,"date":"2022-05-27T18:43:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:15:59","slug":"hand-crank-van-de-graaff-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2022\/05\/hand-crank-van-de-graaff-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand Crank Van de Graaff Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748-772x1029.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748-468x624.jpg 468w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/20220527_110748.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Located in L01, section A2<\/li><li>Van de Graaff generator that works by hand crank, so students can see the mechanism that charges the dome.<\/li><li>Turning the crank moves the belt, which has charges stripped as it moves and thus develops a net charge. Charges spread out on the dome as a result of its proximity to the charged belt.<\/li><li>Use the wand to demonstrate arcing and to ground the dome. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located in L01, section A2 Van de Graaff generator that works by hand crank, so students can see the mechanism that charges the dome. Turning the crank moves the belt, which has charges stripped as it moves and thus develops a net charge. Charges spread out on the dome as a result of its proximity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2022\/05\/hand-crank-van-de-graaff-generator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hand Crank Van de Graaff Generator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[653,3,44,5,1],"tags":[21,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6608,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}