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This is the Vernier Electrostatics Kit.
It's used, maybe, with our charge sensor for
some of the electrostatics experiments.
Just a brief overview of what comes with the kit.
A big part of the Electrostatics Kit is the cage and pail apparatus.
So, we have the cage here, with the pail that goes inside there.
And then, this is the ground plane.
And so, you would use it to, actually, attach a ground to it.
It comes with a couple of grounding wires, for that purpose.
There's also a wrist strap that allows you to
ground your body to the ground plane. So, you put this on there,
and this part is in contact with your skin.
And so, you are at the same potential as the ground plane.
There are several ways of actually being able to
produce charge with items in the kit.
It has the nylon rod with the vinyl sheet.
It also has the PVC rod, with the wool fabric.
There's also a cotton cloth in there,
and this serves the function, you often will end up wetting it,
and so, once you've charged something,
you can discharge onto the cotton cloth there.
And then, we have the two charge separators here.
This is a nylon disk and this one is a PVC disk
attached to Lucite rods.
And, this other one is the proof plane.
It's an aluminum disk / Lucite rod.
This allows us to move charges around,
once we've charged the pail.
So, this would be just a device that
you might use when doing electrostatics.