Static Electricity Lab

The lab was quite interesting, and almost everyone got their share of discharges. The class went upstairs to another classroom, and took turns being electrocuted. Alyx had volumey hair, so what happened was not surprising.

Alyx with her hairlo (Ha! Ha! Get it? HAIRLO! HAAHAH)
(Taken by Rebecca)

Afterwards, I was chosen to be at the end of a chain of guys standing on Styrofoam, and I was near the sink. Mr. Brown told me to try to bend the water, but the splattering of the water caused electrical charges every 750ms or so,which shocked me and everyone in the line.

It was a great experience.  Oh and I suppose I should mention that the Styrofoam is for insulation, allowing the person to act as a fleshy Leyden jar and storing the static charges instead of instantly depositing them into the ground.

And the hair stood up because the electrons, moving through the generator, through the hands, and to the hair,  repelled each other, causing light things like hair to rise.