Balloons and Static Electricity John Travoltage

Balloons and Static Electricity and John Travoltage Remote lab
(This lesson is designed for a student working remotely.)
This lab uses the Balloons and Static Electricity and John Travoltage Remote lab simulation
from PhET Interactive Simulations at University of Colorado Boulder, under the CC-BY 4.0
license.
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/balloons-and-static-electricity/latest/balloons-and-static-electricity_en.html
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/john-travoltage/latest/john-travoltage_en.html
Learning Goals: Students will be able to describe and draw models for common static
electricity concepts. (transfer of charge, induction, attraction, repulsion, and grounding)
Develop your understanding:

1. Open Balloons and Static Electricity, then explore to develop your own ideas about electrical
charge.
Describe several of your experiments and your observation with captured images from the
simulation. Hint: rub the balloon with the sweater and see how it interacts with other objects
such as another balloon, wall.
a. . Rubbing the balloon against the sweater makes the balloon to get all of the sweater’s negative
charges. Once the balloon gets all of the sweaters negative charges it gets attracted to the sweater
and every time the balloon gets loose, it tends to move toward the sweater.
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b. ... whenever we bring the balloon closer to the wall it tends to stick to the wall causes the walls
negative charges to move away from the balloon’s negative charges. Once the wall gets removed
the balloon moves toward the sweater.
2. Open John Travoltage , then explore to develop your own ideas about electrical charge.

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Describe several of your experiments and your observation with captured images from the
simulation.
a. . According to the simulation whenever John walks he attracts electrons from the floor. As long
he does not have any electrons in his body, he can touch a charged object and won’t get shocked.
b. ... Whenever there are electrons in Johns body, he will get shocked if he even comes close to a
charged object and touches the floor or something with his feet. If John does not touch anything
but the charged object, he does not get shocked.

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Test your understanding: Without using the simulations, predict the answers to these questions, then use
the simulation to check your ideas.
Question 1 When the balloon is rubbed on the sweater, what might happen?
What do you predict for the answer?

Some negative charges in the seater will move onto the balloon.
Describe an experiment and include images from the simulation that supports your answer .

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According to the image whenever we
rub a balloon on a sweater the sweater transfers some of its negative charges to the
balloon.
Question 2 What do you think will happen when the balloon is moved closer to the wall?

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Some positive charges in the wall will move towards the balloon.
Describe an experiment and include images from the simulation that supports your answer .
As we can see in the experiment the

negative charges in the wall move away from the negative charges in the balloon and thus the positive
charges in the wall move closer to the negative charges in the balloon.
Question 3 What do you think the balloons will do?

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The balloons will move away from each other.
Describe an experiment and include images from the simulation that supports your answer.
Once both of the balloons

receive the negative charges from the sweater both of them tend to move towards the sweater but
whenever the balloons are put beside one another they tend to move away from one another.
Question 4 What might happen to the charge on the man when he touches the door knob?

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Most electrons will go into the knob and down to the earth.
Describe an experiment and include images from the simulation that supports your answer.

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The pictures describes electrons
being picked up by John and moving into the knob down to earth.

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Balloons and Static Electricity and John Travoltage Remote lab

(This lesson is designed for a student working remotely.)

Develop your understanding:

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What do you predict for the answer?

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As we can see in the experiment the

Question 3 What do you think the balloons will do?

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Once both of the balloons

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