Static charge builds up on the Van de Graaff generator dome. Many different individual demos can be done with it. The Van de Graaff can be used to charge up the hair of a Barbie doll or person. When ...

Looking back on it, although I certainly didn't think so at the time,maybe my five siblings had a point when they complained about some ofthethings I put them through. For instance, after trying to ...

A Van de Graaff can make the flame of the candle flicker. It does this by generating an “electric wind.” A Van de Graaff is a metal ball set on top of a rotating loop of belt. At the bottom of the ...

This Van de Graaf generator was built using mostly parts on hand. The only thing that was purchased for the project was the Christmas ornament shaped M&M candy tin that serves as the collecting sphere ...

It came like a bolt from the blue... and the red... and the orange... and the yellow... and all the colours of the rainbow. Showing the simultaneous appearances of a rainbow and lightning strikes ...

Visitors to the Museum of Science in Boston are always in for a hair-raising treat when they enter the facility’s Theater of Electricity. This small amphitheater is actually the permanent home of the ...