{"id":4165,"date":"2015-06-16T19:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:44","slug":"van-de-graaff-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/van-de-graaff-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Van de Graaff Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/IMG_0685.jpg\" alt=\"Van de Graaff Generator Demo Picture\" width=\"253\" height=\"337\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Principle: Static electricity is cool.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Located in L01, section A2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Van de Graaf accessories are located beneath Van de Graaff<br \/>\ngenerator in plastic containers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some ideas for experiments beyond the typical shock-myself-and-my-students<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bend a paper clip into an L shape and tape it to the charged sphere to create<br \/>\nan ion gun; point the paper clip at the palm of your hand to feel the &#8220;ion<br \/>\nwind&#8221;. Point the paper clip at your shirt to charge your shirt up- after<br \/>\n30 seconds shirt should begin sticking to your chest.<\/li>\n<li>Place a cup of styrofoam peanuts, or a stack of styro or aluminum plates<br \/>\non top of the sphere, turn on generator and watch stuff fly.<\/li>\n<li>Dim the room lights, touch one end of a fluorescent bulb to the charged<br \/>\nsphere and the other end of the bulb to the small discharging sphere. Bulb<br \/>\nwill flicker.<\/li>\n<li>Using a squirt gun shoot a stream of water past the charged sphere; water<br \/>\nshould ionize and stream will disperse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science-house.org\/learn\/vdgraaf.html\">Additional Van de\u00a0Graaff demo ideas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Principle: Static electricity is cool. Located in L01, section A2 Van de Graaf accessories are located beneath Van de Graaff generator in plastic containers. Some ideas for experiments beyond the typical shock-myself-and-my-students: Bend a paper clip into an L shape and tape it to the charged sphere to create an ion gun; point the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/van-de-graaff-generator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Van de Graaff Generator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[21,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}