Brainstorming Ideas 2

Brainstorming Ideas 2

Bend Water With Static Electricity

Research Question: Does water temperature affect the degree in which the water bends?

Materials: A plastic comb, an indoor faucet, and a head of cleans hair.

Hypothesis: The higher the temperature of water used, the larger the degree of the 'bend' of the water.

Variables:

Dependent: Degree of 'bend' of water.

Independent: The amount of times we comb our hair

Constant: the head of hair is used, the size of the stream of water, the same shape, size and colour of the comb, 

Short Summary of Research done on the area of investigation:

-When you brushed that comb through your hair, tiny parts of the atoms in your hair, called ELECTRONS, collected on the comb. These electrons have a NEGATIVE charge. Now that the comb has a negative charge, it is attracted to things that have a POSITIVE charge. It is similar to the way some magnets are attracted to certain metals.

-When you bring the negatively charged comb near the faucet it is attracted to the POSITIVE force of the water. The attraction is strong enough to actually pull the water towards the comb as it is flowing!