Charging by Conduction and Induction

Last week we learned about charging by friction through our “Magic Tape Lab.” But this week we learned two new ways and how an object can get charged. Charging by conduction is the actual transfer of elections. An example of this is getting shocked by touching a metal door knob (a conductor of energy). The shock that you feel is your hand and the door knob trying to neutralize or stabilize itself because they’re two different charges. The last example of charging objects is by the process of induction. When a negatively charged object is near the neutralized net, all the charges create a positive and a negative net through polarization. Once the negatively charged object touches the net, they separate creating two different net systems. The balloon in the picture above will then be attracted to the board because of charging by induction.