Static Elec

Static Electricity: Lab 1

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1. The effects of electrical charge on small uncharged objects will cause the uncharged objects to become attracted to the charged objects. This is because unlike charges attract. I used a Styrofoam cup as a charged object to pick up tiny pieces of uncharged paper. When the cup touched the paper, the paper jumped into the cup. A piece of aluminum foil was not charged and came close with the cup and was also attracted to the charged object.

2. Electrical attraction is charges that are unlike (one charge is positive and the other is negative). Electrical repulsion is charges that are alike (both charges are positive). Benjamin Franklin performed a series of experiments to describe the reason unlike charges attract and why like charge...