Electrostatics Experience

Step 1: Rub a balloon briskly across your hair, then hold the balloon over the bits of paper

Step 1 Observation: The balloon attracted Stanton’s hair (the negatively charged electrons were tranfered to the baloon, attracting the postive protons in Stanton’s hair)

Step 2: Hold the balloon over little bits of paper.

Step 2 Obseravtion: The pieces of paper attracted to the ballon. This is becuase the balloon had opposite charges as the paper, hence the attraction.

Is the balloon charged? Yes! negatively charged

Is the paper charged? Yes! positively charged

Is your hair charged? Yes!

We could design an experiment to test our answer better. We can hold the balloon over more objects to test the charges of certian objects.