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Chapter 14, Problem 99TAE

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A friend says that the reason one’s hair stands out while touching a charged Van de Graaff generator is simply that the hair strands become charged and are light enough so that the repulsion between strands is visible. Do you agree or disagree?

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QUESTION:

A friend says that the reason one’s hair stands out while touching a charged Van de Graaff generator is simply that the hair strands become charged and are light enough so that the repulsion between strands is visible. Do you agree or disagree?

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When you touch a charged Van de Graaff generator, charge that is located on the surface of the sphere of the generator now. These are positive charges, they are all the same, so they repel each other, and they want to be as far apart from each other as possible.

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