Any Physics - Electrostatic energy experts here?

I am a Physics major.

What level of presentation are you doing? Electrostatic force is pretty dry until you get to the university level where oyu actually calculate systems.

Here would be a good outline:

- Introduction to Electromagnetism (the Physics field that encompasses electrostatics)

- Introduction to Electrostatics (more commonly known as static electricity). Describe how the static electricity phenomenon happens. i.e. a buildup of negative or positive charges that causes a potential difference.

- Describe how you can create a potential difference. Friction is the one most people know of.

- describe real world Electrostatic phenomena such as lighting and an electric "shock".

- Equations that may be useful: Electrostatic Potential, Gauss' Law. Unless you do multivariable calculus, don't bother with the derivation of these equations in your presentation.

- a demonstration of Electrostatic potential ("the negative charges are building here, the positive charges are building here and look at what happens")

- Summarize and conclude your presentation.

You may want to have a bit of a theme in your presentation such as "Everyday electrostatics" so it will appeal to an everyday audience and they will understand how this topic applies in their life.

Well its for 14-15 year olds and it has to be 5-10 minutes long

Thanks for the responses  

Does anyone have any more information? 

An aspect of electrostatics that amazed me when I first learned about it is the van der Waals force, intermolecular electrical potential that is responsible for objects being objects, rather than incoherent blobs of atoms. It's what allows solids to be solid, for instance. You could probably get a solid minute of presentation out of the material in the linked article.xaos

I wouldn't recommend that for a presentation to 14-15 year olds. Van der Waals forces are interesting, but are attributed more to Chemistry. Out of the dozens of things that can be tied into Electrostatics, Ven der Waals forces aren't that important for a grade 9 level presentation. 

 What would be more appropriate for a Grade 9 presentation would be ionic bonding and molecule polarity.

Thanks for the link but im looking for something simplified an article that you can understand without knowing anything about physicsJuugo

Thanks for the link but im looking for something simplified an article that you can understand without knowing anything about physicsJuugo

 Start here.

[QUOTE="Juugo"]Thanks for the link but im looking for something simplified an article that you can understand without knowing anything about physicsxaos

Well, if your audience doesn't know anything either, you can just make everything up:D

[QUOTE="Juugo"]Thanks for the link but im looking for something simplified an article that you can understand without knowing anything about physicsNyx-Risa

Start here.

Thanks alot!

That will be really helpfull 

[QUOTE="xaos"]An aspect of electrostatics that amazed me when I first learned about it is the van der Waals force, intermolecular electrical potential that is responsible for objects being objects, rather than incoherent blobs of atoms. It's what allows solids to be solid, for instance. You could probably get a solid minute of presentation out of the material in the linked article.Nyx-Risa

I wouldn't recommend that for a presentation to 14-15 year olds. Van der Waals forces are interesting, but are attributed more to Chemistry. Out of the dozens of things that can be tied into Electrostatics, Ven der Waals forces aren't that important for a grade 9 level presentation. 

 What would be more appropriate for a Grade 9 presentation would be ionic bonding and molecule polarity.

[QUOTE="xaos"][QUOTE="Juugo"]Thanks for the link but im looking for something simplified an article that you can understand without knowing anything about physicsCrimzonTide

Well, if your audience doesn't know anything either, you can just make everything up:D

Its for my physics class and I really need the grade since theres a teacher too 

He probally wont let me

he is a veeeeery bad teacher

[QUOTE="Juugo"]Thanks for the link but im looking for something simplified an article that you can understand without knowing anything about physicsNyx-Risa

Start here.

Thanks again for the link it really saved me^^