| Faraday Pail (conductor): Place one of these conductors in the simulation window. You can attach flags and a neon bulb to this conductor (see figure below). In the conductor's Properties Box, you can set its charge. You can also show or not show the Model View and the Microscopic View of the Faraday pail. An insulator can transfer charge to an Faraday pail through rubbing. However, the Faraday pail cannot transfer charge to an insulator.
Attach flags to the Faraday pail in the indentations provided on the conductor's left and right sides. Attach a neon bulb to the left side of the Faraday pail by clicking on the conductor's left half, as indicated. Attach the bulb to right side by clicking on the right half. |
The unique property of the Faraday pail is that the inside wall of the pail carries no surface charge, provided that the net charge of all charged objects in the pail is zero, as in the figure to the right. |