Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Magic Tape Lab



In my picture for my blog post, I took a picture of a Scotch® tape dispenser that’s in the shape of a lifesaver. This relates to what we’re learning in physics because we just did a Magic Tape Lab in order to find out which pieces of tape seemed to be charged or not. This lab also helped us understand the Charge-Force Law, which states that like charges will repel and unlike charges attract. I like to remember it as “opposites attract”. At the end of the lab my partner and I found that tape A and C had some type of charge, while tape B was neutral…meaning it had no charge at all. It was a good lab that physically showed how objects could have different charges depending on the situation. 

2 comments:

  1. Good post, it really seems like you understood the lab and the concepts.

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  2. I thought doing the lab was pretty nuts because I didn't know you could simply charge things by just "ripping" off electrons

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