Potato Power!

In this on-line demo we introduce the concepts of voltage and current. We discuss how potatoes can be wired in series or in parallel to make a battery. A trip to your friendly neighborhood electronics vendor may be neccessary to get all the components, but this demo is well worth it.

• Teacher's Guide
• Student Worksheet
• The above files in PostScript format.

This demo was conceived and developed by Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Dan Durkin.