The document describes how to make a can roll toward a balloon using static electricity. Rubbing a balloon with tissue gives it a negative electric charge of several thousand volts. When the charged balloon is brought near a metal can, the can gains a positive charge through electrostatic induction and is attracted to roll toward the negatively charged balloon. The effect demonstrates how static electricity can induce motion through attraction of opposite charges.
The document describes how to make a can roll toward a balloon using static electricity. Rubbing a balloon with tissue gives it a negative electric charge of several thousand volts. When the charged balloon is brought near a metal can, the can gains a positive charge through electrostatic induction and is attracted to roll toward the negatively charged balloon. The effect demonstrates how static electricity can induce motion through attraction of opposite charges.
The document describes how to make a can roll toward a balloon using static electricity. Rubbing a balloon with tissue gives it a negative electric charge of several thousand volts. When the charged balloon is brought near a metal can, the can gains a positive charge through electrostatic induction and is attracted to roll toward the negatively charged balloon. The effect demonstrates how static electricity can induce motion through attraction of opposite charges.
2. Blow up the balloon and tie a knot in the end. 3. Rub a tissue back and forth on the balloon.
When you put the balloon near the can, the
can; will start rolling toward the balloon.
How Does It Work?
When you rub the balloon with the tissue,
The balloon gets a negative electric charge Of the several thousand volts .When you put the balloon near the can, electrostatic induction affects the molecules in the metal. The outside of the can gets a positive charge, so it is drawn toward the balloon and starts rolling in that direction. Project in Science (Science Tricks)