Static Electricity and the Balloon

Jared uses wool and a balloon to create a negative charge that attracts the positively charged paper people.

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[yunuskhan]

there is a problem when he said poitively charged papers, actually papers ain't positively charged but electrically neutral . when he brought negatively charged balloon near the paper, the negative charges on the balloon repelled the facing electron clouds on the other side, thus makin one side positively charged and the other negatively charged. this process is called induction. therefor the piece of paper is attracted towards ballon .

[koolaidjmmr]

This dude out here making me smile smh I’m not supposed to be enjoying physics 😂

[skylerquinn]

Thanks you helped me alot if it wasn't for you I could have failed my Report at class thankyou so much Science is cool indeed.

[yourdad]

I had to watch this in school and everyone started laughing

[craigju]

Thank you for a good educational video sir~

[JLvatron]

Cool video!
We got a science kit for kids and the 1st experiment was the static balloon to attract little paper pieces. It didn't work, not even when we touched them.
Tried multiple times, rubbing the balloon on my son's hair (longer) and mine (short), but nothing.
The kit had no explanation for it not working, which is quite incomplete.

[memeswereablessingfromthel]

i love to play with ballons cause i can pull them with my hands without touching them makes me feel like i have superpowers

[pareshparab]

What fabric are you using in the video, and why only that/this fabric why?why dude ? What is your name ? Which country is that

[js-hkif]

I'm a little confused with the process. I've been trying this for two days. I rubbed it on my hair, my mom's, my sister's, wool and cotton. It didn't work.

[masoncampbelll]

I have a question, is the paper positively charged in its normal state?

[sunnirobertson]

I wish I could charge my phone like that…

[neilbush]

No one shows you how to quicly discharge the balloon without water .can an earthed metal ruler do it, or will that only be patchy?

[syedshahidislam]

tba bro i am study 7 class & this is my question tnq

[mvplrrr]

Why some of papers are jumping on and some of papers jumping of?Please give me the answer nicely.

[goodboy]

the antenna is not suppose to be connected to anything just the sky .

[BTWPhysics]

If you covered the entire surface of a balloon with electrons and then deflated the balloon what would happen with the electrons?

[xKoreRSS]

i searched for this because of a theory going around that gravity is not real and its the result of electricity from the earths rotation, interestingly enough this is exactly what is described how electricity can lift up objects obviously is just a theory but damm, its crazy how matter can be lifted with a ballon exactly how the theory describes, the earth as the balloon spinnning generating astronomical amounts of electricity, bu idk though

[Xeno_Bardock]

Earths surface is negatively charged. 🤔

[kongsovanmony]

Hey can you tell me does the ballon size effect the static electricity?

[stevecry]

I think you wiped off the Negative charge on the balloon to make it pos charged, to attract the grounded neg charged people.... IDK for sure tho