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Balloons and Static Electricity

Why does a balloon stick to your sweater? Rub a balloon on a sweater, then let go of the balloon and it flies over and sticks to the sweater. View the charges in the sweater, balloons, and the wall.

 
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Topics

Main Topics

  • Static electricity

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Sample Learning Goals

  • Describe and draw models for common static electricity concepts (transfer of charge
  • induction
  • attraction
  • repulsion
  • and grounding)

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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
 OS 10.4.11 or later
Apple Java 1.5.0_19 or later
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Credits

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