PHYSICS EXPERIMENT HOW TO MAKE BEND WATER WITH STATIC ELECTRICITY

Heres an easy and fun science experiment thats great for helping we learn about static electricity. Try bending water with static electricity produced by rubbing your comb to sweater, can it really be done? Give it a try and find out!Lets we do physics experiment. Its about bend water with static electricity. We need simple materials and instruments, they are a plastic comb, a narrow stream of water from a tap, sweater and an indoor faucet. Now, how to make it? First, turn on the faucet and slowly turn down the water until you have a very thin stream of water flowing. Then, take the plastic comb and brush it at sweater. Last, slowly move the comb towards the stream of water (without touching it) while watching closely to see what happens.The static electricity you built up by rubbing comb to sweater against the comb attracts the stream of water, bending it towards the comb like magic! Negatively charged particles called electrons jump from your sweater to the comb as they rub together, the comb now has extra electrons and is negatively charged. The water features both positive and negatively charged particles and is neutral. Positive and negative charges are attracted to each other so when you move the negatively charged comb (or balloon) towards the stream, it attracts the water's positively charged particles and the stream bends!In this experiment, negatively charged particles called electrons jump from your sweater to the comb as they rub together, the comb now has extra electrons and is negatively charged. The water features both positive and negatively charged particles and is neutral.

The molecules in the water stream are neutral they have both positive and negative charges, and all their electrons nicely floating around wherever they are supposed to be. When I move the (now negatively charged) comb next to the water stream, the electrons that are closer to the comb are being repelled away. The molecules that are closer to the comb, therefore, become positive, and away from the comb there is more negative charge (more electrons).

The side of the water flow that is closer to the comb is now positively charged, and the comb is negatively charged. Positive and negative charges are attracted to each other so when you move the negatively charged comb towards the stream, it attracts the water's positively charged particles and the stream bends!