Last night I went to my great grandma's 99th birthday party. It was so much fun because family that I had never met came from the mainland to celebrate with us. We also played a couple of super fun creative games that my uncle prepared for us. One of them reminded me of what we are learning in Physics right now. In this game, we had to pick one person from our table to be dressed up like a reindeer in the most unusual way. At the end, my great grandma would judge who was the best reindeer, and the person she picked, would win. In order to make the antlers, you had to stuff panty hose with balloons. The person who dressed up from our table was my sister. However, we did not use up our balloons the first time because we didn't think they would all fit. But after comparing her to the other "reindeer" we decided to put them all in...except we had the hardest time taking the nylon off her head because the nylon and balloons kept sticking to her hair! This is a result of the attraction that was occuring due to an imbalance of charge caused by friction. After rubbing all the different balloons and the nylon together, the balloons and nylon both had a charge because they either gained or lost electrons. When there is an imbalance, the object attempts to gain neutrality again by attatching to something neutral so share/gain back electrons. Since her hair was still neutral, when we tried to pull off the nylon, it was attracted to her extremely long hair which made it hard to take off.
