Physical Science Activity 3- Static Tape/cup

Key Question: What are some of the similarities and differences between the magnetic and electric-charge interactions?
Here we are making the experiment, and getting it ready to create Static Electricity

We do this by cutting 2, 15cm strips of tape and place them in the following order;

1. First, we cut out 2 by 2cm tabs of paper, and label them B1 and B2, meaning Base 1 and Base 2
2. We then Put them on the table 15cm apart
3. After that, we place 1 strip of tape face down on the table, making sure the ends of the tape each have a tab that either says B1 or B2
4. Then you repeat the same step, but right on top of the first strip of tape, labeling the tabs T1 and T2

 

In this picture it shows us pulling the tape of the table by its tabs, but both strips of tape are still stuck together

afterwards, we pulled the two strips apart, creating two static pieces of tape

we then put both strips of tape on a meter stick making sure the sticky side was facing away from us

then we got to the actual experiment recording it onto our packets

we first took the non-sticky side of the B tape and placed it close to a foam cup hanging on the opposite end of the ruler by its tabs

here, you see the non-charged foam cup attracting

we had tried it with the T tape and had got the same results
we then had changed the experiment up a little bit
we had electrically charged the cup by rubbing it with a cotton towel

after charging the cup, we tried the experiment again but this time, we had gotten different results

instead of attracting, the cup had repelled the tape

Answer: later on we concluded that only and non-charged and charged objects attract while two of the same charges repel
it relates to a magnetic interaction because the south pole and the north pole of a magnet attracts and two of the same poles repel