Pasco Electrometer - Physics Demonstrations - Pasco Electrometer | Physics Undergraduate Labs

Easily damaged by excessive voltage or improper grounding. Review the manual before use. Discharge large charged objects through a resistor before bringing them near the probe.

Purpose

This instrument has been removed from inventory. It provided quantitative electrostatic charge and potential measurements, substituting for an electroscope with numerical readout via a projection meter on overhead projector.

Left: Pasco Model 524C Electrometer (light blue case, two analog meters) with blue padded carrying case. Right: accessories including Faraday ice pail, projection meter, cables, charge probes, wire mesh Faraday cage, and manual.

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Safety Warnings

Warning: Easily Damaged

Purpose