Monday, 13 September 2010

Static Electricity - Inquiry












You will need:
a pen, a piece of tissue, a jersey

Method
Take a pen. Rub it on a jersey or through your hair ten times. Use the pen to pick up the piece of tissue paper.

Result
The tissue paper should 'stick' to the pen for a short amount of time. This is static electricity.

This is what Séamus wrote:
We did some science in Room 3 with tissue paper and a red pen. We combed the red pen through our hair. We put the red pen on the tissue paper. Then we lifted the tissue paper with the pen. Then it fell down because it lost energy.

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