Electricity and Circuitry · Electricity & Magnetism

Static Electricity and Fields

Exploring the physics of electric fields and the transfer of charge between insulators.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does this model explain the accumulation of charge on a moving aircraft?
  2. 2What variables affect the strength of an electric field around a point charge?
  3. 3How would an engineer apply electrostatic principles to industrial smoke precipitators?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

GCSE: Physics - ElectricityGCSE: Physics - Static Electricity
Year: Year 11
Subject: Physics
Unit: Electricity and Circuitry
Period: Electricity & Magnetism

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