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What Is Science
Science is the way of learning about the natural world, and **Scientists** gather information and explore the natural world using different science processes. Part of science is **Observing, meaning using one or more of your senses to gather information,** which scientists are always doing, and there are two types of which is quantitative and qualitative observation. Another part of science is ** Inferring, meaning when you explain or interpret the things you observe, ** another thing scientists do. Predicting, meaning making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence. many scientists use this in their studies with experiments and when they are investigating. Classifying is the grouping together of items that are alike in some ways, this is how scientists made the animal kingdom. Part of Science is Making Models, which involves creating representations of complex objects and processes. And one of the most crucial parts of Science is Evaluating, which involves comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them, this is what people do in experiments. Another part is Conducting Scientific Investigations is the way which scientists study the natural world. Students today are learning more about science day by day and sometimes they learn more by how their teacher's teach them. SO if you have a teacher like ** Mr.Hankins!!!!! ** then you can learn many things. So to those fellow learners good luck, study and you'll learn as much as I will.

Problem Statement: What material can be charged with static eletricity.

Hypothesis: If i use a sock as a material then it can be charged with static electricity.

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 * Feel free to critizcize because I don't know if sock is a good material or should I put cotton ( or whatever socks are made out of) as the material. **Pls do not hesitate to comment on this very page and leave your My Science Research Paper Thursday, November 10, 2011 There are many things that are factors of static electricity like electrons, static electricity, and more. Electrons are the negatively charged particles of atoms. All the electrons of an atom form an electric charge. Protons and electrons are opposites. The mass of an electron is almost 1,000 times smaller than the mass of proton. The electrons is a subatomic particle with a negative elementary electric charge. An atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. So an electron and an atom work together hand in hand, and the reason why the atomic nucleus contains a mix of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons. Protons and electrons are opposites so they attract each other. So atom is made up of mixture of protons and neutrons. A negatively or positively charged atom is an ion. The word atom comes from the Greek, the translation means uncut table, or indivisible, something that can not be divided further. The concept of atoms being indivisible was first thought of by early Indians and Greek philosophers. In the 17th or 18th century, chemists gave a physical basis that showed that no other chemical or substance could break down an atom no further. But in 18th and 19th century physicists discovered a subatomic (or a particle that makes up an atom) structure inside of an atom, thereby proving an atom was divisible. Atoms are minuscule, or very small, objects with proportionately tiny masses. Atoms can be observed individually using special instruments such as a scanning tunneling microscope. Over 94.44% of an atom's mass is made up of nuclear and with protons and neutrons with roughly the same mass. The principles of quantum mechanics were used successfully model the atom. The next topic is about electricity. Electricity is basically an electric charge. Electricity is a general term encompassing (or to form a circle about ) a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of an electric charge. Examples are lightning, static electricity and the flow of the electric current in a wire. Also, electricity encompasses less familiar concepts such as the electromagnetic field and electromagnetic induction. Electromagnetic field is a field of force associated with a moving electric charge equivalent to an electric field and a magnetic field at right angles to each other and to do the direction of the propagation and electromagnetic induction is the induction of an electromotive force by the motion of a conductor across a magnetic field or by a change in magnetic flux in a magnetic field. The word is from New Latin electricus coined in the year 1600 from the Greek (electron) meaning amber, because electrical effects were produced by classically rubbing amber. In general usage, the word "electricity" adequately refers to a number of physical effects. Static Electricity is a stationary electric charge built up on an insulating material. Static electricity refers to the build-up of electric charge on the surface of objects. The static charges remain of an object until they bleed off to ground or quickly neutralized by a discharge. Static electricity can be contrasted with current electricity ( or a flow of electric charge ), which can be delivered through wires as a power source. The effects of static electricity are familiar to most people because people can feel hear, and even see the spark as the excess charge is neutralized when brought close to an electrical conductor, or a region with an excess charge of the opposite polarity, or the properties or characteristics that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage body, (positive or negative). What causes static electricity you may ask, well here are some facts that might help you answer that question. All materials are made up of atoms and molecules that are normally electrically neutral, because they have an equal number of positive charges and negative charges. When two materials are in contact, electrons may move from one material to the other, which leaves an excess of positive charge of one material, and leaving an equal negative charge on the other material. When both materials are separated they retain this charge imbalance. Electrons can be exchanged between materials on contact; materials with weakly bound electrons tend to lose them while the materials that are tightly bound tend to gain them, this is known as the triboelectric series when one material becomes negatively charged and the other becomes positively charged. The triboelectric effect is the main cause of static electricity as observed in everyday life, and in common high-school demonstrations involving rubbing different materials together. (fur against an acrylic rod.) Contact induced charge separation causes your hair to stand up due to static cling for example, a balloon rubbed against hair becomes negatively charged, and when brought near a wall it becomes positively attracted to the wall ( appearing to be suspended in thin air) as if clinging to it. Charges with the same polarity repel but charges with opposite polarity attract. As the force due to the interaction of electric charges fall off rapidly with increasing distance, the effect of the of the closer (opposite polarity) charges is greater and the two objects feel a force of attraction. The effect is more pronounced or clearly indicated, when the neutral object is an electrical conductor that are the more free to move around. Careful grounding of an object with a charge-induced charge separation can permanently add or remove electrons, leaving an object with a global, permanent charge. This process is integral, or part of whole pieces to the workings of the Van De Graaf Generator, a device commonly used to demonstrate the effects of static electricity. Some people want to remove or prevent static electricity, I don't know why because I think it's interesting but here are some ways to. But preventing or removing static electricity is as easy as opening up a window, or using a humidifier to increase the moisture content of the air, making the atmosphere more conductive. Air ionizers can basically perform the same task. Items that are particularly sensitive to static discharge can be treated with an application of antistatic agent, which adds a conducting surface that ensures any excess discharge is evenly distributed. Examples of antistatic agents are fabric softeners that are used in washing machines and clothes dryers to help prevent static cling. There are many types of static discharge and most of them are familiar to us. One example is lightning. Lightning is a natural dramatic example of static discharge, but details are unclear and are a debate. The initial separation is thought to be associated with ice particles within storm clouds. The static charge in the air typically breaks its ways down at around 10,000 volts per centimeter depending on humidity. If you have anymore questions on static energy just ask. Thank you for reading.

Hypothesis If I use carpeting, then the static electricity would charge best.