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John Travoltage

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  • Static Electricity
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  • Static Electricity

Description

Make sparks fly with John Travoltage. Wiggle Johnnie's foot and he picks up charges from the carpet. Bring his hand close to the door knob and get rid of the excess charge.

Sample Learning Goals

  • Describe and draw models for common static electricity concepts (transfer of charge, attraction, repulsion, and grounding).
Version 1.09

For Teachers

Teacher-Submitted Activities

Title Gold Star Contribution Contribution by PhET Authors Level Type
Static Magnetic and Electric unit (Inquiry Based) A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines. This contribution was designed by PhET. Trish Loeblein HS HW
Lab
Demo
Inquiry Based Modeling Static Electricity A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines. This contribution was designed by PhET. Trish Loeblein HS CQs
Demo
How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? This contribution was designed by PhET. Sarah Borenstein MS Other
Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS This contribution was designed by PhET. Trish Loeblein HS Other
Charges Activity with Various Simulations This contribution was designed by PhET. Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman UG-Intro
HS		 CQs
MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment Elyse Zimmer MS
HS		 Other
PhET Simulations Aligned for AP Physics C Roberta Tanner HS Other
Introduction to Current, Voltage, and Resistance Karen King HS Lab
Greased Lightning Dean Baird, Paul G. Hewitt HS
UG-Intro		 Lab
HW
Electric Charge Basics Sarah Stanhope HS Lab
Exploring electric charges dorina kosztin HS
UG-Intro
MS		 Lab
Electrostatics Simulations: Introductory David Moutoux HS HW
John Travoltage Gretchen Swanson HS Lab
Visualizing Current, Voltage and Resistance Stephan Graham HS Lab
Exploring Static Electricity Katherine Frett HS HW
Simulações no Ensino de Fisica Carla Tavares HS MC
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Arabic All العربية Run now جون والكهرباء الساكنة
Armenian All Armenian Run now Փորձարարը
Basque All Basque Run now John Travoltage
Belarusian All беларускі Run now Травальтаж
Bosnian All Bosanski Run now DŽONTRA, ZNAČI, VOLTA
Bulgarian All български Run now Джон Траволтаж
Chinese (Simplified) All 中文 (中国) Run now 静电电压
Chinese (Traditional) All 中文 (台灣) Run now John Travoltage
Croatian All hrvatski Run now Johntra Volta
Danish All Dansk Run now John TraVoltage
Dutch All Nederlands Run now Travolta - statische elektriciteit
Estonian All Eesti Run now Travoltage
Finnish All suomi Run now John Travoltage
French All français Run now Travolt ... aahh
Galician All Gallegan Run now John Travoltage
German All Deutsch Run now John Travoltage
Greek All Ελληνικά Run now Travoltage
Hebrew All עברית Run now Travoltage
Hungarian All magyar Run now John T.R.A. Volta
Indonesian All Bahasa Indonesia Run now John Travoltage / Pembangkit Listrik Statis
Italian All italiano Run now John TraVolt
Japanese All 日本語 Run now 静電気とカーペット
Kazakh All Kazakh Run now Джон Траволтэйдж
Khmer All Khmer Run now John Travoltage
Korean All 한국어 Run now 정전기: 죤 트라볼티지
Kurdish (Turkey) All Kurdish (Turkey) Run now Travoltaja John
Macedonian All македонски Run now Пренесување на електрицитет
Persian All فارسی Run now ولتاژ بالا و الکتریسیته ی ساکن
Polish All polski Run now Jasio Woltuś
Portuguese All português Run now Travoltagem
Portuguese (Brazil) All português (Brasil) Run now John Travoltagem
Romanian All română Run now Travoltaj
Russian All русский Run now Травольтаж
Serbian All Српски Run now ЏОНТРА, ЗНАЧИ, ВОЛТА (ТЕБРА)
Slovak All Slovenčina Run now John Tra-volt
Slovenian All Slovenščina Run now John Travoltič
Spanish All español Run now Travoltaje
Spanish (Peru) All español (Perú) Run now John Travoltaje
Swedish All svenska Run now John Travoltage
Thai All ไทย Run now จอห์น ทราโวลท์เทจ
Turkish All Türkçe Run now Elektrikli Travolta (Statik Elektrik)
Turkmen All Turkmen Run now Zarýadlanma - Jon Trawoltaž
Ukrainian All українська Run now Джон Травольтаж
Vietnamese All Tiếng Việt Run now John Travoltage

Software Requirements

Windows Macintosh Linux
Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later

Credits

Design Team Third-party Libraries Thanks To
  • Sam Reid (developer)
  • Carl Wieman
  • Interviewer: Wendy Adams
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