Jermaine and Lashonda each rub their dry hair with inflated balloons. While doing this, the other students notice that their hair is starting to stick straight out. Next, the teacher takes the balloons and places them right next to one another. However, the balloons will not stay next to each other, as they normally would. Instead, they spring apart in opposite directions. What is causing these balloons to push each other away?
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During this process , the balloons particles get charged so they attract hair towards themselves. When they are kept together the same charges repel each other
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These balloons are pushing each other because -
• When we rub the balloon with our hair,the electrons are transferred from the surface of our hair to the surface of the balloon.
• That's why,the balloon surface becomes negatively charged and the hair surface becomes positively charged.
• Now,when we put two negatively charged balloons, infront of each other they starts repelling each other because similar charges always repel each other.
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