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SIUC Department of Physics
Thanks to everyone involved with the recent field trip on Dec 7, 2005 to SIUC Physics department of the Murphysboro General John A. Logan Elementary School 2nd graders.  Pics of the event are below. 

 

 

Vandegraph Generator - Static Electricity

 

Magnets, coils, and current. Induction, force on a wire by a magnetic field.

Jacob's Ladder and Vandegraph

Generators / Motors

Jacob's Ladder. High voltage arc between electrodes. The arc rises due to heating of the air around it.

White Light

Balloon in a vacuum chamber.

Helium discharge tube.

Arc on Jacob's Ladder

Like charges repel.

Balloons floating over a fan

Charge transfer.

Magnetic field of a bar magnet

Basic ring and bar magnets

Magnetic dampening / eddy currents.

Tube laser and diffraction

Deflection of electrons in magnetic field.

Gas discharge tube and spectrascopes.

Primary Hydrogen spectral lines viewed through a diffraction grating.

Light engine

Spectra of Helium