Unit 8 · Electricity and Magnetism

Static Electricity

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Activity 8.1

A comb that picks up paper

MethodMake fine pieces of thin paper and put them on a table. Take a plastic pen or a rubber comb and rub it in dry hair. Now take the comb near the pieces of paper and observe. Guess why the pieces of paper might have been attracted to the comb.
A hand holding a comb above small pieces of paper that are jumping up to it, and a hand holding a pen with small pieces clinging underneath it
Figure 8.2: Static electricity
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