{"id":12530,"date":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2016\/01\/27\/a-hair-raising-day-in-science\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:06:13","slug":"a-hair-raising-day-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/a-hair-raising-day-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hair-raising Day in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our Van der Graaf generator was in use today with Year 8 Scholars doing their electrostatics revision. Annabel and Claire demonstrated the machine, showing how you could make sparks fly between the dome and earthing rod, light a bulb with the charge generated and repel metal tart cases, before offering those brave enough the chance to make their hair stand on end.<\/p>\n
We repeated the demonstration in Junior Science Club after exploring electrostatic charge with balloons by rubbing them on jumpers – then the boys could bend water, pick up punch confetti and stick the balloons to the wall too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
27 January 2016 Our Van der Graaf generator was in use today with Year 8 Scholars doing their electrostatics revision. Annabel and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-news-categories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n